Backups and English versions began appearing within two minutes of the upstream takedown. GitHub search on Nov 6 shows existing repositories with artex in the name: 15,529 forks since Sep 27, 15,826 including non-forks, and 10,493 from Oct 8 to Oct 14.
Figures and definitions
| Wiz | more than 12,000 forks (Oct 22), dated to Oct 8, which does not match the archives: there were only a few hundred forks before the takedown |
|---|---|
| piyolog | Oct 20: the main 15 lineages total more than 12,000, not deduplicated |
| Daily high | 3,492 on Oct 9 alone |
Sources (13)
- 2026-10-22 Vendor Wiz Research ARTEX in the Wild: Storm-0940 Expands Targeting of IT and Software Vendors
- 2026-11-04 Vendor BadByte ARTEX Backdoor: 7,946 Pulls of a Trojanized Docker Image Handing Out Root Shells
- 2026-10-06 Media piyolog AIペネトレーションテストツール"ARTEX"についてまとめてみた
- 2026-10-21 Media 파이낸셜뉴스 fnnews, 引 AhnLab ASEC 人士 (韩文报道: ARTEX 克隆与衍生版)
- 2026-11-04 Media Cyberinsecurity ARTEX AI Pentest Platform: What the Code Shows
- 2026-11-06 Media Trendshift mhtsec/ARTEX — GitHub trending stats
- 2026-10-08 Metadata Internet Archive mhtsec/ARTEX (Wayback 快照)
- 2026-10-09 Metadata Internet Archive Hinln/ARTEX (Wayback 快照)
- 2026-11-06 Metadata GitHub API GitHub Search API: 名称含 artex, 9-27 以来创建的 fork
- 2026-11-06 Metadata GitHub API GitHub Search API: 10-08 to 10-14 创建
- 2026-11-06 Metadata GitHub API GitHub API: mhtsec/ARTEX
- 2026-11-06 Metadata GitHub API GitHub Search API: 主要系统现值
- 2026-11-06 Metadata Docker Hub API Docker Hub Search API: artex