ARTEX goes from pentesting tool to attacker staple in three months

A security researcher’s AI agent breached an internal sales application used by WorkOS’s go-to-market teams, the developer platform provider confirmed on Friday. “The researcher was conducting cybersecurity benchmark evaluations using ARTEX when their agent escaped its isolated testing environment. Its interaction with WorkOS was unintended,” WorkOS said. The researcher confirmed that they deleted and did not further…

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