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25 open-source cybersecurity tools that don’t care about your budget

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Open-source AI pentesting tools are getting uncomfortably good

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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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The 2026 State of Pentesting: Why delivery and follow-through matter more than ever

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The 2026 State of Pentesting: Why delivery and follow-through matter more than ever 2026-01-21 at 07:34 By Help Net Security Penetration testing has evolved significantly over the past several years. While uncovering exploitable vulnerabilities remains the core goal, the real differentiator today is how findings are handled after the testing concludes. The method of reporting, […]

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Product showcase: Penetration test reporting with PentestPad

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Product showcase: Penetration test reporting with PentestPad 2026-01-16 at 09:57 By Help Net Security If you’ve done a pentest before, you know things can get messy fast. You start organized, but a few hours in, notes are scattered, screenshots have odd filenames, and small details get lost. PentestPad was built to help with that, not […]

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Novee Emerges From Stealth With $51.5 Million in Funding

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Novee Emerges From Stealth With $51.5 Million in Funding 2026-01-14 at 15:54 By Ionut Arghire Novee provides continuous AI-driven penetration testing to uncover and address novel vulnerabilities. The post Novee Emerges From Stealth With $51.5 Million in Funding appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Kali Linux 2025.4: New tools and “quality-of-life” improvements

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Kali Linux 2025.4: New tools and “quality-of-life” improvements 2025-12-15 at 13:48 By Zeljka Zorz OffSec has released Kali Linux 2025.4, a new version of its widely used penetration testing and digital forensics platform. Most of the changes are related to appearance and usability: Kali’s GNOME desktop environment now organizes Kali tools into folders via the […]

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Equixly Raises $11 Million for AI-Powered API Penetration Testing

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Equixly Raises $11 Million for AI-Powered API Penetration Testing 2025-12-09 at 13:21 By Ionut Arghire The Italian startup will use the investment to build proprietary AI models, accelerate global expansion, and hire new talent. The post Equixly Raises $11 Million for AI-Powered API Penetration Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from […]

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AI-driven threats are heading straight for the factory floor

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AI-driven threats are heading straight for the factory floor 2025-12-09 at 09:07 By Mirko Zorz In this Help Net Security interview, Natalia Oropeza, Chief Cybersecurity Officer at Siemens, discusses how industrial organizations are adapting to a shift in cyber risk driven by AI. She notes that in-house capability, especially for OT response and recovery, is […]

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From Compliance to Covert Ops: Demystifying the Offensive Security Landscape

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From Compliance to Covert Ops: Demystifying the Offensive Security Landscape 2025-11-26 at 16:31 By Sandun Bambarandage The merits of deploying offensive testing to strengthen an organization’s security posture are well-understood by today’s security leadership. Much to the relief of defenders, obtaining approval for an offensive security exercise has never been easier. This article is an […]

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Crowdsourced Penetration Testing: Understanding the Risks for Better Decision-Making

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Crowdsourced Penetration Testing: Understanding the Risks for Better Decision-Making 2025-11-18 at 16:36 By Jason Shepherd CPT vs. Bounties: CPT is a time-boxed, structured test for compliance reports with a fixed cost. Bug Bounty is ongoing, open-ended discovery paid per valid vulnerability found. Mitigate Key Risks: Watch for poor researcher vetting, potential data exposure/exfiltration by bad […]

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Strix: Open-source AI agents for penetration testing

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Strix: Open-source AI agents for penetration testing 2025-11-17 at 16:32 By Sinisa Markovic Security teams know that application flaws tend to show up at the worst time. Strix presents itself as an open source way to catch them earlier by using autonomous agents that behave like human attackers. These agents run code, explore an application, […]

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sqlmap: Open-source SQL injection and database takeover tool

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sqlmap: Open-source SQL injection and database takeover tool 2025-11-10 at 11:28 By Sinisa Markovic Finding and exploiting SQL injection vulnerabilities is one of the oldest and most common steps in web application testing. sqlmap streamlines this process. It is an open-source penetration testing tool that automates the detection and exploitation of SQL injection flaws and […]

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