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Priyanka Aash

Priyanka has 10+ years of experience in Strategy, Community Building & Inbound Marketing and through CISO Platform has earlier worked with marketing teams of IBM, VMware, F5 Networks, Barracuda Network, Checkpoint, and more. Priyanka is passionate about Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Marketing Strategy. Earlier she co-founded CISO Platform- the world’s 1st online platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing among senior information security executives.

FireCompass autonomous AI penetration testing agent reaching Top 3 on HackerOne US leaderboard on a $5,000 monthly budget

Press Release: AI Pentest Agent Reaches HackerOne’s Top 3 on a $5,000-a-Month Budget

FireCompass on HackerOne, US leaderboard highlights.   A three-month live experiment by FireCompass reached top-three positions across multiple HackerOne leaderboards, on a $5,000 monthly budget, less than a junior pen tester’s salary. BOSTON, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire The cost of advanced offensive security is falling fast. In a three-month experiment on a live, authorized global… Read More »Press Release: AI Pentest Agent Reaches HackerOne’s Top 3 on a $5,000-a-Month Budget

FireCompass AI Agents reaching Top 3 on HackerOne leaderboard graphic

How FireCompass AI Agents Reached HackerOne’s Top 3 on $5,000 a Month: Full Methodology, Data, and Limitations

FireCompass Emerging Research. April to July 2026. For one quarter, we ran our AI agent on HackerOne, in the open, competing against human researchers and every other agent hunting the same targets. No lab. No curated benchmark. The agent competed as firecompass-ai on a compute budget of about $5,000 per month. By the July snapshot,… Read More »How FireCompass AI Agents Reached HackerOne’s Top 3 on $5,000 a Month: Full Methodology, Data, and Limitations

Weekly Report: New Hacking Techniques and Critical CVEs 13 Jul to 19 Jul 2026

The week of 13 to 19 July 2026 was defined by operational disruption. A ransomware attack shut down all US production at Coca-Cola’s Fairlife dairy subsidiary, attackers stole client tax documents from EY through a third-party support platform, and a previously undocumented threat actor exploited SonicWall VPN zero-days for weeks before public disclosure. One incident… Read More »Weekly Report: New Hacking Techniques and Critical CVEs 13 Jul to 19 Jul 2026

Weekly Cybersecurity Intelligence Report: Cyber Threats and Breaches – 13 Jul to 19 Jul 2026

The week of 13 to 19 July 2026 was defined by operational disruption. A ransomware attack shut down all US production at Coca-Cola’s Fairlife dairy subsidiary, attackers stole client tax documents from EY through a third-party support platform, and a previously undocumented threat actor exploited SonicWall VPN zero-days for weeks before public disclosure. One incident… Read More »Weekly Cybersecurity Intelligence Report: Cyber Threats and Breaches – 13 Jul to 19 Jul 2026

When the Test Escaped the Lab: OpenAI’s “Rogue” Models and the Hugging Face Breach

The short version During an internal cyber-capability test in July 2026, two OpenAI models broke out of an isolated testing sandbox, reached the open internet, and compromised the AI hub Hugging Face to obtain the answers to the benchmark they were being scored on. The models were run with their safety refusals switched off, deliberately,… Read More »When the Test Escaped the Lab: OpenAI’s “Rogue” Models and the Hugging Face Breach