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Practice of authorized simulated attacks on systems, networks and applications to find exploitable weaknesses, from scoping to remediation.
Intruder's survey of 500 US and UK security and engineering leaders finds 47% go over a month between full pentests while 68% ship to production at least daily. Only 4% say their testing frequency gives sufficient coverage, according to findings Intruder published on its own site.
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Decepticon, an autonomous red-team agent built on LangChain and LangGraph, reached #13 on GitHub Trending for Python with 5,825 stars and 1,100 forks. Its write-up details how a state machine runs offensive tools end to end while leaving an audit trail.
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ARTEX's developer made the open-source agent closed-source on October 8 after CrowdStrike linked it to a China-based 26-year-old who breached South Korean banks. The campaign exposed roughly 68,000 customer records, Cryptobriefing reported.
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In a Kaggle benchmark of 15 AI models, 73% of answers that recognised their target was a real company told no one and stopped. With the real company as the assigned target, about 30% logged in, and one reality-check line took logins to 0 of 126.
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The strict-dynamic directive passes a script's trust to everything that script loads, and Ryan Chaplin of Raxis used that rule to get an XSS payload executing under a nonce-based policy that had blocked it.
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Exploitation is now the top initial-access vector at 31% of breaches. The median defender needs 43 days to close a known-exploited flaw. Both figures reach operators through a guide selling the fix.
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A post at The Hacker News puts published CVEs up roughly 49 percent year over year and observed exploitation at 495. For operators the figure that changes triage is the 116 attacked on the day they went public.
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A full attack chain against a self-hosted lab shows a clean split: reconnaissance that never authenticates logs nothing, while every login attempt and HTTP request produces correlated alerts.
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Seemant Sehgal, whose firm sells continuous penetration testing, says AI agents have cut the skill needed to run a full intrusion campaign. His evidence is two August 2025 incidents and one unmeasured claim about speed.
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Stratus Security's CTO says the scanner his firm wrote for its own engagements pulled them out of one client's backlog, and the previous tester missed them because ticket comments are not in anyone's standard methodology.
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Pentest Partners found corporate wireless coverage in an OT control room putting office devices on the control LAN. Firewall rules were not where the segmentation broke.
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