Tag: penetration-testing
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The Winter Games effect: When gold meets DDoS
Tags: attack, botnet, cctv, ddos, defense, detection, dns, government, group, infrastructure, international, Internet, iot, jobs, lockbit, network, penetration-testing, ransomware, router, service, strategy, threat, windowsAttack volumes 610x historical levels during the Winter Games period (February 623, 2026)Peak attack count reached more than 2,200 attacks on February 23NoName057(16) dominated public DDoS hacktivist claims with 47, although ransomware groups (Qilin, LockBit 5.0) also claimed success in various attacksTactical shift from pre-Winter Games high-bandwidth attacks (412.89Gbps peak) to Winter Games-period high-throughput attacksGeographic…
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CISA mulls new three-day remediation deadline for critical flaws
Tags: api, ceo, cisa, exploit, flaw, government, kev, msp, penetration-testing, technology, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementTight window: A CISA spokesperson declined to comment on the Reuters report, but security experts were more forthcoming, with most believing the idea is simply an acknowledgement that modern vulnerability management is evolving.One source of anxiety was that a three-day timeline would leave little time for meaningful testing, normally a time-consuming and complex undertaking that…
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CISA mulls new three-day remediation deadline for critical flaws
Tags: api, ceo, cisa, exploit, flaw, government, kev, msp, penetration-testing, technology, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementTight window: A CISA spokesperson declined to comment on the Reuters report, but security experts were more forthcoming, with most believing the idea is simply an acknowledgement that modern vulnerability management is evolving.One source of anxiety was that a three-day timeline would leave little time for meaningful testing, normally a time-consuming and complex undertaking that…
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How the Story of a USB Penetration Test Went Viral
Tags: penetration-testingTwo decades ago Dark Reading posted its first blockbuster, a column by a pen tester who sprinkled rigged thumb drives around a credit union parking lot and let curious employees do the rest. This episode looks back at the history-making piece with its author Steve Stasiukonis, Dark Reading senior editor Becky Bracken, and Dark Reading’s…
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Web App Pentest by AutoSecT
Web applications run almost every business today. They handle logins, payments, user data, and daily operations. As usage grows, risk grows too. Hackers look for small gaps. Even a minor flaw can lead to a serious attack. This is why web app pentest is now a basic need. It helps you find weak points before……
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Active Directory Lab Setup for Penetration Testing Using PowerShell
This article provides a complete walkthrough of both phases, from clicking >>Create a New Virtual Machine<< in VMware all the way to a fully First seen on hackingarticles.in Jump to article: www.hackingarticles.in/active-directory-lab-setup-for-penetration-testing-using-powershell/
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A Detailed Guide on Local Port Forwarding
In the contemporary digital world, penetration testing and red team engagements, direct access to target systems from the attacker’s machine is uncommon. Many services are First seen on hackingarticles.in Jump to article: www.hackingarticles.in/a-detailed-guide-on-local-port-forwarding/
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How Escape AI Pentesting Exploited SSRF in LiteLLM
Discover three SSRF sinks. A security gate built to stop them. And a nesting trick that walks right past it. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/05/how-escape-ai-pentesting-exploited-ssrf-in-litellm/
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Download: Automating Pentest Delivery Guide
Pentesting remains one of the most effective ways to identify real-world weaknesses, but the method for delivering results hasn’t evolved. Manual workflows involving static … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/05/01/plextrac-download-automating-pentest-delivery-guide/
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Bank regulator sounds warning over cybersecurity threat posed by AI models
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, banking, cloud, cyber, cyberattack, cybersecurity, defense, finance, flaw, germany, government, penetration-testing, service, supply-chain, technology, threat, vulnerabilityAccessing Mythos: It’s barely three weeks since Anthropic made Claude Mythos public on April 7 and it’s hard to recall a development that’s caused as much cybersecurity alarm in such a short space of time.Earlier this week, Michael Theurer, the chief supervisor of Bundesbank, Germany’s financial regulator, echoed APRA’s concern, telling Reuters that European banks…
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Escape AI Pentesting Agents 2.0 A Deep Dive
What each agent actually does (BOLA, Regression testing agent, Business logic testing agent, and others..), how they coordinate, and what you can expect from Escape’s AI pentesting product in the upcoming weeks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/escape-ai-pentesting-agents-2-0-a-deep-dive/
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Benchmarking AI Pentesting Tools: A Practical Comparison
We benchmarked 4 AI pentesting tools: Escape, Shannon, Strix, PentAGI, and Claude against a modern vulnerable application. Learn more about their detection rates, false positive rates, and scanning speed. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/benchmarking-ai-pentesting-tools-a-practical-comparison/
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Benchmarking AI Pentesting Tools: A Practical Comparison
We benchmarked 4 AI pentesting tools: Escape, Shannon, Strix, PentAGI, and Claude against a modern vulnerable application. Learn more about their detection rates, false positive rates, and scanning speed. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/benchmarking-ai-pentesting-tools-a-practical-comparison/
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Vom jährlichen Pentest zum ContinuousExposure-Management
Die eigene Cybersicherheit einmal im Jahr zu testen, ist so, als würde man einen Gesundheitscheck machen und erst nach einem Jahr prüfen, ob die Behandlung überhaupt wirkt. So könnte die Pointe des folgenden, klassischen Szenarios lauten: Ein Unternehmen führt sein jährliches Sicherheitsaudit durch. Der Pentester identifiziert etwa zehn kritische Schwachstellen und verfasst seinen Bericht mit…
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AWS leans on prior ingenuity to face future AI and quantum threats
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cloud, communications, computer, computing, control, credentials, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, exploit, google, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, lessons-learned, malicious, penetration-testing, phishing, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, updateSymmetric cryptography and the quantum threat: Back in the early 2010s, most hardware security modules used asymmetric cryptography to protect security keys. Asymmetric cryptography, the kind used to secure online communications, involves pairs of keys, one to lock, another to unlock. It’s a very useful and convenient approach when dealing with multiple parties.Amazon chose to…
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AWS leans on prior ingenuity to face future AI and quantum threats
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, breach, cloud, communications, computer, computing, control, credentials, crypto, cryptography, cybersecurity, data, defense, encryption, exploit, google, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, lessons-learned, malicious, penetration-testing, phishing, risk, service, technology, threat, tool, updateSymmetric cryptography and the quantum threat: Back in the early 2010s, most hardware security modules used asymmetric cryptography to protect security keys. Asymmetric cryptography, the kind used to secure online communications, involves pairs of keys, one to lock, another to unlock. It’s a very useful and convenient approach when dealing with multiple parties.Amazon chose to…
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Critical Cursor bug could turn routine Git into RCE
Tags: ai, attack, cvss, flaw, malicious, nvd, penetration-testing, phishing, rce, remote-code-executionExpanded attack surface with agentic IDEs: Novee warned that while traditional IDEs are passive, doing what developers explicitly tell them to do, Cursor’s AI agent interprets intent and autonomously decides which commands to run, which includes Git operations. And that’s where the problem lies.”In traditional pentesting, ‘client-side’ attacks targeting developer machines have always been a…
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7 Best Penetration Testing Tools Software in 2026
View our complete buyer’s guide of the best penetration testing tools in 2026. Browse the best pentesting tools now. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/products/best-penetration-testing/
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AI Red Teaming Is Not Equal to Prompt Injection
Why AI and Traditional Penetration Testing Must Converge As artificial intelligence red teaming evolves beyond prompt injection, security teams must combine data science, model testing and traditional penetration testing to assess risks across the full attack surface. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/blogs/ai-red-teaming-equal-to-prompt-injection-p-4106
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Why AI-Driven Reconnaissance Matters Today?
AI is changing cybersecurity in different ways. One of the biggest changes shows up in penetration testing, especially in the first stage called reconnaissance. This is the stage where security testers collect information about a target before they test it. Today, AI-driven reconnaissance makes this step faster, easier, and more structured. Instead of spending long……
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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 … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/04/22/pentagi-autonomous-ai-penetration-testing/
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Top XBOW Alternatives in 2026
Escape is the best XBOW alternative for continuous AI pentesting across APIs, web apps, and complex authentication, with regression testing, developer-ready remediation, and platform pricing suited for rapidly scaling orgs. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/top-xbow-alternatives-in-2026/
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Top XBOW Alternatives in 2026
Escape is the best XBOW alternative for continuous AI pentesting across APIs, web apps, and complex authentication, with regression testing, developer-ready remediation, and platform pricing suited for rapidly scaling orgs. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/top-xbow-alternatives-in-2026/
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How AutoSecT Simplifies Audit Preparation for Global Enterprises
AutoSecT by Kratikal steps in not as an AI-driven VMDR and pentest tool to add to the stack, but as a unified platform that radically simplifies audit readiness while strengthening security posture at scale. Preparing for security audits is one of the toughest challenges global enterprises face today. With sprawling attack surfaces, cloud environments, complex……
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NWN Adds Managed Security Services With MDR Partnership, Penetration Testing, vCISO
NWN announced the launch Wednesday of a suite of managed security services with the debut of its new NWN Cybersecurity offering, which aims to boost cyber defense for staff-constrained customers with human expertise and AI-enabled assistance, NWN executives told CRN. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/nwn-adds-managed-security-services-with-mdr-partnership-penetration-testing-vciso
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How to prepare for SOC 2 penetration testing
For organisations working towards SOC 2, penetration testing is often one of the more visible and scrutinised components of the audit process. While SOC 2 is not prescriptive in how controls must be implemented, it does require clear evidence that risks are identified, assessed, and addressed through effective security practices. SOC 2 penetration testing plays”¦…
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The zero-day timeline just collapsed. Here’s what security leaders do next
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, authentication, breach, cio, ciso, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, defense, endpoint, exploit, google, Internet, Intruder, leak, least-privilege, open-source, penetration-testing, resilience, service, strategy, tactics, update, vulnerability, zero-dayScaling vulnerability discovery to machine speed: Agentic AI is AI that can act, not just advise. Give it an objective, and it will plan steps, run them, learn from what happens and adjust until it succeeds or hits a hard stop. In cybersecurity, that looks like an automated operator. It can probe an application, test…
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Why Your Automated Pentesting Tool Just Hit a Wall
Automated pentesting tools deliver strong early results, then quickly plateau. Picus Security explains how the “PoC cliff” leaves major attack surfaces untested and creates a dangerous validation gap. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/why-your-automated-pentesting-tool-just-hit-a-wall/
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At RSAC 2026, AI Redefines the Future of Penetration Testing
Penetration testing is undergoing a substantial shift as AI reshapes both attack and defense strategies. At RSA Conference 2026, multiple vendors pointed to the same underlying pressure: Attack surfaces are expanding more quickly, while the time required to detect and address weaknesses is shrinking. That shift is being driven in part by the rise of..…
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New ZAP PTK Add-On Converts Browser Security Findings Into Native ZAP Alerts
The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) just received a massive upgrade for testing modern web applications. The release of the ZAP PTK Add-on 0.3.0, working alongside OWASP PenTest Kit (PTK) 9.8.0, now converts browser-based security findings directly into native ZAP alerts. Traditionally, ZAP excels at analyzing server-side behavior, HTTP headers, and proxy-layer traffic. However, modern…