Skip to content

Agentic AI

Nine Programs, Nine Organizations, One Forgotten DNS Record: How FireCompass’s Agentic AI Penetration Testing Found Subdomain Takeover Risk Across Five Cloud and CDN Providers

Introduction A subdomain takeover starts with a decommissioning step nobody remembered to do. A team points a company subdomain at a third-party resource, a CDN edge, a cloud app, a storage bucket, a static-site build, and later deletes or renames that resource without ever removing the DNS record that pointed to it. The subdomain keeps… Read More »Nine Programs, Nine Organizations, One Forgotten DNS Record: How FireCompass’s Agentic AI Penetration Testing Found Subdomain Takeover Risk Across Five Cloud and CDN Providers

OpenSource-AI-Pentesting-Tools-2026

The Top Open-Source AI Pentesting Tools in 2026, and What Each One Leaves You to Build

Fewer than five open-source offensive security agents existed before GPT-4 shipped. By March 2026 Hadrian’s census counted roughly seventy. The good ones are not thin LLM wrappers. They drive nmap, Burp and sqlmap, read the output, reason about what it implies, and choose the next move. That is closer to how a tester works than… Read More »The Top Open-Source AI Pentesting Tools in 2026, and What Each One Leaves You to Build

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