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Was the Artex multi-agent penetration-test tool used in hacks against Japanese websites?

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Reddit summary of a WSJ report linking Artex (Autumn-27) to Japan website hacks; primary WSJ article not opened in this run.

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    A LocalLLaMA post summarizes a Wall Street Journal report that hackers used Artex, a multi-agent penetration-test tool attributed to a China-based developer Autumn-27, against many Japanese websites. The original GitHub repo is said to have been deleted; a fork remains. Treat as Unconfirmed pending the primary WSJ piece.

    Source: r/LocalLLaMA
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