ARTEX and Friends: Enter Agentic Offensive Frameworks

Summary

Mandiant incident response engagements have observed threat actors using open-source agentic pentesting frameworks, including ARTEX, Hexstrike and CAIRN, to automate much of the attack lifecycle, such as lateral movement, database exploitation and exfiltration preparation. Google Threat Intelligence Group reports that this shift allows intrusions to proceed at machine speed and scale.

Topics

• AI agents

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