WashingtonSome Artex intrusions reached privileged access in under 3 hours.
Cybercriminals and nation-states are using it against governments and critical industries worldwide, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
Artex turns any large language model into a hacking agent that converts plain-language goals into machine commands.
Its developer pulled the GitHub repository, but forks, archives and a commercial version keep circulating, the bureau said.
Censys found over 1,600 exposed Artex consoles, and the bureau says real deployments run higher.
How each outlet framed it
- The Record leans critical
- centers on the FBI alert that Artex can reach privileged access in under three hours, and notes forks survive the GitHub takedown
Sources: The Record