Agentic AI: The Weapon That No Longer Needs a Warrior

Every weapon begins as an extension of the hand that holds it. The spear lengthened the reach of the arm. The bow sent the point flying without the throw. The rifle placed a man's death a quarter mile beyond his sight, and the aircraft carried that death across oceans. At each turn, the distance...

OffSploit

OffSploit: Autonomous Exploit Adaptation & C2 Framework !Py...

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...

Researchers Build Self-Replicating AI Worm That Operates Entirely on Local, Open-Weight Models

University of Toronto researchers have built and tested a proof-of-concept AI-driven computer worm that uses a locally hosted open-weight large language model to reason its way through a network, generate tailored attack strategies for each target it encounters, and replicate itself, all without...

pentestai

PentestAI Autonomous penetration testing framework for intent...

PT-2026-47173

$1,000 of compute found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg. An autonomous agent called depthfirst scanned roughly 1.5 million lines of C, then wrote a reproducible proof-of-concept for every bug it reported. The shift is that second half. Not a list of suspicious lines for a human to chase, but 21 crashing...

PT-2026-47172

An autonomous AI security agent just found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Some were 23 years old. All came with working PoCs. CVE-2026-39210 through 39218 assigned. 12 more fixed, not yet numbered. This is what commodity AI vulnerability research https://t.co/zpeiwGSVQh https://t.co/ad6T1JxzD...

Closing the Sim-To-Real Gap: An Evaluation Framework for Autonomous Cyber Defense Configuration of Commercial EDR

Leading commercial endpoint detection and response EDR products have shifted from operator-configured rule sets to multi-component systems where autonomous AI components operate alongside, and increasingly in place of, operator-deployed policies. Autonomous defense agents using commercial EDR as...

CVE-2026-1718

IBM Db2 11.5.0 through 11.5.9, and 12.1.0 through 12.1.4 is vulnerable to a denial of service with a specially crafted query when autonomous transactions are enabled...

CVE-2026-49943

CZ.NIC BIRD Internet Routing Daemon (up to version 2.19.0) is affected by a stack-based buffer overflow in the BGP AS_PATH mask matching implementation (nest/a-path.c). The as_path_match() routine uses a fixed-size stack capable of 2048 + 1 pm_pos entries, while parse_path() expands AS_PATH segme...

snyk-agentic-appsec-poc

Snyk Agentic AppSec POC Proof of concept demonstrating autono...

SeClaw: Spec-Driven Security Task Synthesis for Evaluating Autonomous Agents

Autonomous LLM agents increasingly operate in stateful environments where they access tools, files, memory, and external services. While such capabilities enable complex real-world workflows, they also introduce security risks that are difficult to capture with existing evaluations. Current agent...

GCVE: A Decentralized Model for Vulnerability Identification, Publication, and Operational Enrichment

The Global CVE initiative GCVE proposes a decentralized, open, and extensible model for vulnerability identification, publication, and enrichment. It addresses a gap in today's vulnerability ecosystem: centralized systems provide rigorous control and widely recognized identifiers, while many...

Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection

As threats become more coordinated and faster to execute, endpoint protection has become the proving ground for modern defense. For the seventh consecutive time, Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection. We believe this reflects both the...

WireDown

WireDown Autonomous AI-Driven Honeypot in a Zero-Gravity Physi...

IBM DB2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (7273554, 7273555, 7273556, 7273557, 7273558) (Unix)

According to its self-reported version number, IBM Db2 is affected by multiple vulnerabilities: - IBM DB2 for Linux, UNIX and Windows includes DB2 Connect Server stores potentially sensitive information in log files that could be read by a local user. CVE-2025-13755 - IBM Db2 is vulnerable to a...

Information Security in Small-Scale Protests: Surveillance of Ugandan Anti-EACOP Protesters

We examine the information security practices of Ugandan climate activists protesting the development of the East African Crude Oil Pipeline EACOP. We conducted five-week fieldwork in Kampala, Uganda, which included interviews with 13 anti-EACOP activists. Through an inductive analysis, we report...

EUVD-2026-32266

IBM Db2 11.5.0 through 11.5.9, and 12.1.0 through 12.1.4 is vulnerable to a denial of service with a specially crafted query when autonomous transactions are enabled...

CVE-2026-1718

IBM Db2 11.5.0 through 11.5.9, and 12.1.0 through 12.1.4 is vulnerable to a denial of service with a specially crafted query when autonomous transactions are enabled...

CVE-2026-1718

IBM Db2 is vulnerable to a denial of service when autonomous transactions are enabled, affecting Db2 Server releases 11.5.0–11.5.9 and 12.1.0–12.1.4. The root cause is CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling). A specially crafted query can trigger the issue. Remediation invo...