Tagged: PentestGPT
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AI Pentest Agents Part 1: From Assistant to Autonomous Swarm
A new wave of AI pentesting agents landed in the space of two weeks in July 2026. This opens a series on what they actually do, how they differ from each other, and how they differ from the raw LLM-plus-nmap-plus-Metasploit approach this site already tried in AI Part 7.
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AI Pentest Agents Part 3: PentestGPT and the Academic Case for Reasoning, Generation, Parsing
PentestGPT is the oldest project in this series by a wide margin — a USENIX Security 2024 paper before it was a product. What its three-module design got right early, what changed in its 2026 agentic rewrite, and what its own published benchmark numbers actually say.