A two-week penetration test can leave roughly 345 days of real-world exposure unvalidated. Sprocket Security explores why continuous testing is becoming critical as attack surfaces constantly change. […]
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Why you need BAS and autonomous pentesting together
Most security teams know the drill: A new autonomous penetration testing tool gets deployed, and the first run is genuinely impressive. The dashboard surfaces critical findings, maps lateral movement paths nobody had documented before, and exposes a legacy service account that has been sitting idle for years. Great. The red team feels like it’s found…
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Novee’s Agentic Fix turns validated exploits into fixes through AI coding agents
Novee has announced Agentic Fix, an enhancement to its AI penetration testing platform that helps teams move from validating security findings to deploying fixes in a single step. Agentic Fix extends Novee’s platform by generating remediation guidance from the same exploit context used to uncover an issue, then routing that guidance to the AI coding…
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Why Annual Penetration Tests Are No Longer Enough
Traditional annual penetration tests are becoming less effective as organizations rapidly expand cloud, hybrid, and AI-driven environments that change far faster than yearly assessment cycles can keep up with. According to Lydia Zhang, President and Co-Founder of Ridge Security, modern infrastructure, applications, APIs, and dependency chains evolve continuously, creating constantly shifting attack surfaces that static…
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AI cyberattackers are getting better faster
The ability of AI models to perform end-to-end, multi-stage penetration tests that match the capabilities of humans undertaking the same tasks has improved dramatically in recent months, according to new benchmarks published by the UK government’s AI Security Institute (AISI). In November 2025, the difficulty of cyber tasks the best models could complete was doubling…
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Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent
Penetration testing has usually required weeks of manual work, specialized tooling, and teams with narrow skill sets. Lyrie, an open-source autonomous security agent built by OTT Cybersecurity, compresses that process into a command line tool and publishes the entire codebase. The project reached version 3.1.0 this month. The release adds XChaCha20-Poly1305 memory encryption for sensitive…
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Pen tests show AI security flaws far more severe than legacy software bugs
Penetration tests of AI-based systems are revealing a greater percentage of high-risk flaws than those discovered in legacy systems. Security consultancy Cobalt’s annual State of Pentesting Report reveals that 32% of all AI and large language model (LLM) findings are rated as high risk — nearly 2.5 times the rate (13%) of severe flaws found…
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Beyond the Checkbox: A Strategic Guide to Software Penetration Testing in 2026
Here is a guide to software penetration testing. Your software has vulnerabilities. The only real question is whether you find them first — or an attacker does. That’s not alarmism. That’s the current state of application security. According to the IBM Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023, the average cost of a data breach in…
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PentAGI: Open-source autonomous AI penetration testing system
Penetration testers have long relied on collections of specialized tools, manual coordination, and documented runbooks to work through a target assessment. PentAGI, an open-source project from VXControl, attempts to automate that entire workflow using a multi-agent AI system that plans, researches, and executes penetration tests with minimal human direction. How the agent system works PentAGI…
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AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing now generally available
AWS Security Agent on-demand penetration testing is now generally available, enabling you to run comprehensive security tests across all your applications, not only your most critical ones. This milestone transforms penetration testing from a periodic bottleneck into an on-demand capability that scales with your development velocity across AWS, Azure, GCP, other cloud-providers, and on-premises. With…
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Amazon sends AI agents into pen testing and DevOps
Amazon’s latest AI capabilities bring on-demand penetration testing through the AWS Security Agent, alongside the AWS DevOps Agent. “These agents are changing the way we secure and operate software. AWS Security Agent compresses penetration testing timelines from 2-6 weeks to 1-2 days. AWS DevOps agent gives teams 3–5x faster incident resolution so they can spend…
Global Security News, Network Security
Kali Linux 2026.1 ships BackTrack mode, eight new tools, and a kernel upgrade to 6.18
Penetration testers running Kali Linux have a new release to work with. Version 2026.1 delivers the annual theme refresh, a new BackTrack-inspired mode in kali-undercover, eight tools added to the network repositories, a kernel bump to 6.18, and several Kali NetHunter changes. 2026 theme refresh Each year’s first Kali release brings a visual overhaul, and…
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Novee introduces autonomous AI red teaming to hunt LLM vulnerabilities
Novee today introduced AI Red Teaming for LLM Applications for its AI penetration testing platform, designed to uncover security vulnerabilities in LLM-powered applications before attackers can exploit them. Enterprises are deploying AI-enabled software, from customer-facing chatbots to internal copilots and autonomous agents, and security teams are now facing a new class of risks, including prompt…
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Hadrian unveils Nova, enabling continuous, AI-powered offensive security testing
Hadrian has announced the launch of its agentic penetration testing solution, Nova. Built as an extension of its core external exposure management platform, Nova delivers on-demand pentesting without the delays or operational disruption typical of human-led engagements. By autonomously replicating the methodologies of offensive security professionals, Nova enables organizations to identify and respond to emerging,…
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Bug bounties are broken, and the best security pros are moving on
Penetration testing engagements are organized as scheduled contracts with defined scope, set testing windows, and direct communication channels with client teams. Cobalt’s 2026 Pentester Profile Report describes growing preference for penetration testing as a service (PTaaS) and contract-based testing models. Why pentesters are frustrated with bug bounty (Source: Cobalt) Many participants prefer contract-based testing over…
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Why phishing still works today
In this Help Net Security video, Gal Livschitz, Senior Penetration Tester at Terra Security, explains how phishing has evolved and why employees still fall for it. He outlines how phishing now uses HTTPS, branded pages, and lookalike domains, making attacks harder to spot. He highlights communication overload as a key weakness that attackers exploit. Livschitz…
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BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework
BlacksmithAI is an open-source penetration testing framework that uses multiple AI agents to execute different stages of a security assessment lifecycle. A multi-agent structure for offensive workflows BlacksmithAI runs as a hierarchical system in which an orchestrator coordinates task execution across specialized agents. Each agent maps to a common penetration testing function. The recon agent…
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Aikido Infinite introduces continuous, self-remediating AI penetration testing
Aikido Security has unveiled Aikido Infinite, a continuous AI penetration testing solution that autonomously validates and remediates vulnerabilities. Infinite reduces risk with every release by testing software changes as they move through deployment, confirming exploitability, and fixing vulnerabilities within the same workflow. Penetration testing often relies on manual or point-in-time assessments, frequently delivered weeks after…