Hazmat: Open-source containment for AI agents 2026-08-17 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Hazmat is an open-source tool that runs AI coding agents inside a separate account on your own machine. It wraps the harnesses people use: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor Agent, and several more, plus any script you write yourself. An agent launched the […]
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PentestGPT: Open-source automated penetration testing agentic framework 2026-08-12 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec PentestGPT is an open-source penetration testing agent that points a large language model at a target and lets it work. In its default mode it runs recon, then exploit, then walkthrough, each stage feeding the next. Switch it to pentest mode and
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Security teams keep finding critical flaws after scheduled testing ends 2026-07-22 at 08:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Enterprise environments change between scheduled security assessments, leaving organizations with periods where new vulnerabilities can go undetected. Synack’s State of Continuous Security Validation report found that 95% of surveyed organizations identified high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities outside planned testing windows
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20 open-source cybersecurity tools to keep your team ready for anything 2026-07-08 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI is changing how security teams find vulnerabilities, analyze code, test applications, and protect infrastructure. Developers are building tools to secure AI systems themselves, from coding agents and memory protection to model exposure discovery. This roundup covers recent
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Kali Linux 2026.2 trims VM boot times, refreshes its desktops 2026-06-30 at 11:16 By Sinisa Markovic Penetration testers who run Kali Linux inside virtual machines boot their systems faster after the 2026.2 release. The change comes from a decision about graphics firmware, the code that drives NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel GPUs. That firmware has grown
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DarkMoon: Open-source AI pentesting platform 2026-06-29 at 08:30 By Mirko Zorz Penetration testing has long run on expert time, with specialists spending days probing a network or web application by hand. Manual engagements stretch across weeks, expert consultants run into thousands of dollars a day, and results vary with the tester. Automation promises to narrow
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Companies keep bolting AI onto their products, and the security bill is coming due 2026-06-29 at 07:30 By Mirko Zorz Companies keep bolting AI and LLM features onto their products, and the security results are starting to show a pattern. The vulnerabilities those features create get rated high risk far more often than anything else,
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Day in the Life of a Red Teamer: Thinking Like the Adversary 2026-06-04 at 17:38 By John Jackson There’s a persistent myth about red team operators: that the job is all zero-days, glowing terminals, and cinematic “I’m in” moments. The reality is more interesting and far more human. This article is an excerpt from LevelBlue
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Two Approaches for Offensive Testing of AI Systems: Architecture-led AI Application Penetration Test and Threat-led AI Red Team Assessment 2026-05-27 at 16:59 By Sarath Nair Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the shape of the application attack surface. A traditional application assessment usually starts with familiar questions, such as: This article is an excerpt from LevelBlue
Lyrie: Open-source autonomous pentesting agent 2026-05-18 at 09:42 By Sinisa Markovic 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
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Threat Analysis: Backdoored Electron Apps Evading Defenses 2026-05-08 at 18:03 By Michael Morose This Threat Analysis report is part of the “Purple Team Series” in which the LevelBlue Global Security Operations Center (GSOC) provides a technical overview of some of the methods that threat actors are using to compromise their victims. This article is an
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Hacking Hotels via Smart Stationary Bikes: How Unsecured Gym Equipment Can Lead to RCE 2026-04-29 at 17:00 By John Lopez Internet of Things (IoT) systems in hospitality environments are often overlooked as harmless amenities, but in reality, they can operate within highly interconnected networks, turning them into surprisingly effective gateways for broader system compromise. This
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25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget 2026-04-27 at 10:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Regardless of the operating system you use, managing secrets, apps, cloud, compliance, and security operations can be overwhelming. The free, open-source tools presented in this article can help you detect threats, increase visibility, enforce controls, and investigate and respond
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PentAGI: Open-source autonomous AI penetration testing system 2026-04-22 at 10:09 By Anamarija Pogorelec 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
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Kali Linux 2026.1 ships BackTrack mode, eight new tools, and a kernel upgrade to 6.18 2026-03-25 at 08:07 By Anamarija Pogorelec 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
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Bug bounties are broken, and the best security pros are moving on 2026-03-10 at 08:33 By Anamarija Pogorelec 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
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What happens when AI teams compete against human hackers 2026-03-06 at 07:58 By Anamarija Pogorelec A cybersecurity competition produced what may be the largest controlled dataset comparing AI-augmented teams to human-only teams on professional-grade offensive security tasks. The event, called NeuroGrid, ran for 72 hours on the Hack The Box platform and drew 1,337 registered
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BlacksmithAI: Open-source AI-powered penetration testing framework 2026-03-02 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz 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.
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Securing Every Layer: How LevelBlue’s Full-Stack Testing Protects Your Product and Reputation 2026-02-28 at 10:37 By Connected products, whether IoT, IIoT, embedded, mobile, or other such devices, serve to either strengthen or undermine an organization’s security posture and reputation. This article is an excerpt from LevelBlue Blog View Original Source
Open-source AI pentesting tools are getting uncomfortably good 2026-02-02 at 09:10 By Help Net Security AI has come a long way in the pentesting world. We are now seeing open-source tools that can genuinely mimic how a human tester works, not just fire off scans. I dug into three of them, BugTrace-AI, Shannon, and CAI,
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