{"artifact":{"id":"artifact-rts-20261010-artex-maintainer-distribution-withdrawal","dedupe_key":"042acfe44b027c6ae0d534da5430a118398667f0a9b12b642308cd35e7452e84","canonical_url":"https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-developer-makes-artex-ai-agent-closed-source-after-korean-bank-hack-2026-10-09/","evidence_locator":"","artifact_type":"agent_tool_distribution_change","title":"ARTEX maintainer says public releases and support will stop after reported misuse","summary":"Reuters reported that ARTEX developer Autumn-27 announced a closed-source conversion, end of public releases/support and removal of the public GitHub repository after reported malicious use. This is a developer distribution response separate from the already-canonical South Korean financial-sector incident.","creator_entities":["Reuters"],"released_at":"2026-10-08T00:00:00.000Z","content_hash":null,"metadata":{"rts_handoff_ids":["rts_handoff_a72481c5af494c3287cfd5633e846ad5"],"review_disclaimer":"No fresh attribution of attacks; no assertion that old copies or forks vanished.","provenance":"directly-reviewed-primary-or-original-research-source"},"created_at":"2026-10-10T05:59:13.374Z","updated_at":"2026-10-10T05:59:13.374Z"},"sources":[]}