Picus puts AI agents on the offensive with autonomous pentesting

Picus Security has announced Picus Autonomous Penetration Testing, an agentic pentesting capability that puts AI agents on the offensive: they think like attackers, chain real exploits toward an organization’s crown jewels, and prove what a breach would look like, under governance the agent cannot override. The launch rebuilds Picus’s automated penetration testing for the agentic era on five years of enterprise deplo…

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Palo Alto tracks a massive Chinese AI attack that sadly lives up to industry fears

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 is reporting today that it has tracked a massive China-based attack leveraging the open-source AI penetration testing framework Cairn to autonomously conduct 25 operations against at least 19 organizations. The attackers weaponized Cairn by pairing it with Chinese AI models Zhipu GLM and DeepSeek, Unit 42 said. The report said it monitored the attacks in August and September 2026 in which t…

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Attackers breached 10 organizations with an open-source AI pentest framework

Chinese-speaking attackers used Cairn, an open-source AI penetration testing framework, to run 25 operations against at least 19 organizations in August and September 2026. Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 found that the attackers gained unauthorized access or pulled data at 10 of them, often after typing little more than a domain name and a one-line goal. Most of the targets fall into three groups: seven in the semicondu…