ARTEX: The AI Pentesting Tool Used in the ConnectWise Hack
In brief On October 21, 2026, Microsoft said a China-state aligned group it tracks as Storm-0940 used an AI-driven penetration testing tool to compromise IT services firm ConnectWise — then used that foothold to target hundreds of organizations worldwide. The tool is ARTEX: an open-source, multi-agent AI framework, written in Go, that runs an entire … Read more