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Sweet Security Unfurls AI Agent to Conduct Penetration Testing

Michael Vizard | May 13, 2026 | AI penetration testing, API security, Attack Chain Analysis, Cloud Security, Continuous Security Testing, Cybersecurity AI Arms Race, OpenAI 5.5, Red Teaming, runtime security, Sweet Attack, Sweet Security, Vulnerability Management

Sweet Security has launched Sweet Attack, an AI-powered "continuous red team" agent that automates penetration testing using real-time runtime data and Layer 7 exposures ...

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112 or 22 to 2: Who Moved the Vulnerability Cheese?

AI can now scan codebases and generate hundreds of potential vulnerabilities in minutes. But when 112 bug reports collapse into 22 confirmed flaws and only two exploitable issues, the real disruption is ...

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For $18 an Hour Stanford’s AI Agent Bested Most Human Pen Testers in Study

Teri Robinson | December 19, 2025 | agentic AI security, AI penetration testing, AI vs human hackers, ARTEMIS AI, pen testing automation, red teaming AI, Stanford cybersecurity study, vulnerability discovery

A Stanford study finds the ARTEMIS AI agent beat most human pen testers in vulnerability discovery—at a fraction of the cost ...

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Chinese-Made Villager AI Pentest Tool Raises Cobalt Strike-Like Concerns

Jeffrey Burt | September 16, 2025 | AI penetration testing, China AI, Cobalt Strike Beacon, PyPI

Villager is being pitched as a legitimate AI-powered pentest tool for red teams, but the platform, made by Chinese company Cyberspike, has been loaded almost 11,000 times on PyPI in two months, ...

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Lasso Platform Employs AI Agents to Secure AI Applications

Michael Vizard | September 10, 2025 | AI Application Security, AI blue team, AI cybersecurity skills gap, AI Governance, AI penetration testing, AI red team, AI security policies, AI threat mitigation, AI vulnerability scanning, autonomous AI agents, LLM application security, prompt injection defense, purple team AI, secure AI deployment

Lasso has launched an agentic AI service for purple teaming that secures AI applications before and after deployment. By combining red and blue team functions with autonomous AI agents, the platform detects ...

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On