AI agents are already changing how cyberattacks are carried out. Check Point Research (CPR) analyzed ARTEX, an AI-powered penetration testing platform increasingly adopted by cybercriminals and gained rare visibility into how attackers are using autonomous agents from inside their own operator consoles. The findings show that attackers can set an initial objective and leave AI agents to independently find vulnerabilities, exploit systems and pursue that goal at scale, often with very little human involvement. Key Findings ARTEX is already operating at scale: CPR identified 2,557 systems that hosted ARTEX, including 1,608 live, publicly accessible instances at the time of the […]
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