The Blind Spots of Agentic Pentesting and How to Close Them
Agentic pentesting is the sharpest edge of offensive security today, but it leaves critical gaps. Here's where those blind spots are and how to address them.
ToolsAgentic pentesting is the sharpest edge of offensive security today, but it leaves critical gaps. Here's where those blind spots are and how to address them.
ToolsThree research teams successfully exploited a fully patched Google Pixel 10 at Pwn2Own Ireland, winning a combined $562,500 in prizes.
GuidesAn unknown threat actor used the open-source AI pentesting tool ARTEX to breach South Korean banks. A separate actor, SCARLET LOOP, was found automating account
ThreatsA malware campaign called 'Midnight Mimosa' embeds malicious code in low-cost Android firmware, enabling ad fraud and residential proxy abuse across 150+ countr
VPN & PrivacyThe Wazza phishkit targets banking, manufacturing, and government sectors across the US, Europe, and Australia using a multi-stage routing chain to evade detect
ToolsA phishing platform impersonates AI chatbot ad products to steal credentials and MFA codes via browser-in-the-browser attacks targeting agency ad accounts.
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Microsoft confirmed KB5124010 crashes apps using AC-3 audio decoding. Legacy games, media players, and productivity apps are most affected.
OpenAI disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign attempting to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its AI models, attributing core activity to Moonsh
Threat actors are weaponizing ChatGPT Custom GPTs to redirect victims to ClickFix lures that deploy a full-featured remote access trojan via DLL sideloading.
UNC6240 is mass-exploiting CVE-2026-35273 in Oracle PeopleSoft by URL-encoding requests to bypass WAF rules, deploying web shells and backdoors across multiple
Anthropic published a detailed report on Claude misuse cases. Key findings cover credential theft, influence operations, surveillance, and weapons research.
DPRK-linked attackers are distributing Go-based malware via Terraform providers and Go modules, marking a novel supply chain distribution vector.
ShinyHunters breached rival ransomware gang Cl0p and threatened to expose victim data. Organizations that paid Cl0p may now face renewed extortion risks.
Hacktron researchers used Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and access OpenAI staff accounts and an internal GitHub repository within 72 hours.
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