Beyond ARTEX: 45 AI Pentesting Tools and How to Find Them

An analysis of 45 open-source agentic AI pentesting frameworks reveals that while most do not ship built-in secret-hunting pipelines, they provide agents with shell and web access that allows models to assemble pipelines at runtime. Researchers cataloged 32 of these frameworks into five families and discovered that dozens of operator consoles, including 1,428 ARTEX instances, remain exposed on the open internet via Shodan without authentication. Open article →