nightcrawler

Nightcrawler An autonomous penetration testing agent that runs entirely on a smartphone. Drop the phone on a network, walk away, and it discovers hosts, maps services, finds vulnerabilities, and generates a pentest report — all without cloud connectivity. root@kitploit: ░█▄░█ █ █▀▀ █░█ ▀█▀ █▀▀ █▀...

APTS

What is OWASP APTS? A governance standard for autonomous penetration testing platforms. It defines what these systems must do to operate safely, transparently, and within defined boundaries, whether they are delivered by vendors, operated as a service, or built in-house by enterprise security tea...

The Emergence of Autonomous Penetration Capabilities in Large Language Model-Powered AI Systems

Nowadays, the autonomous execution of cyberattacks capable of causing substantial real-world harm is widely regarded as one of the critical red lines that frontier AI systems must not cross. Within this broader red-line scenario, autonomous penetration represents a core enabling capability and...

pentestai

PentestAI Autonomous penetration testing framework for intent...

ExploitIQ

⚡ ExploitIQ Autonomous AI-Powered Penetration Testing Assis...

Hand over the keys for Shannon’s shenanigans

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Last week, yet another security AI tool made the rounds on social media: Shannon, a fully autonomous AI penetration testing tool created by Keygraph. It "autonomously hunts for attack vectors in your code, then uses its built-in...