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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

Pentera alternatives

Pentera Alternatives for Continuous Automated Penetration Testing: Top Platforms Compared (2026)

Pentera is a mature security validation platform covering internal networks, external infrastructure (via Pentera Surface), and cloud environments. If your threat model centers on infrastructure validation across those surfaces, it fits. But if you need continuous external web and API penetration testing with deep OWASP Top 10 coverage, zero-knowledge attack surface discovery from an org… Read More »Pentera Alternatives for Continuous Automated Penetration Testing: Top Platforms Compared (2026)

Fable 5 Just Refused Your Security Work. 7 Insights.

7 Insights: How Fable 5 (Mythos Avatar) Will Change Your Offensive Security Program

Yesterday, Anthropic shipped Fable 5, the public avatar of its Mythos-class model and the most capable model it has ever released to anyone with a subscription. Fable 5 and the gated Mythos 5 are the same underlying weights. What separates them is a layer of safety classifiers, separate models that inspect every request, and the… Read More »7 Insights: How Fable 5 (Mythos Avatar) Will Change Your Offensive Security Program

Continuous Offensive Security Testing Is Becoming a Category. Here’s What Most Vendors Will Get Wrong.

COST vs CTEM: What Continuous Offensive Security Testing Requires

Looking for the full COST definition? This post covers the market analysis. For the complete framework, triggers, and how FireCompass delivers Continuous Offensive Security Testing (COST) you can refer to: www.firecompass.com/continuous-offensive-security-testing When someone tells you they do continuous offensive security testing or COST, ask two questions. Q1: Can it prove the exploit with reproduction steps… Read More »COST vs CTEM: What Continuous Offensive Security Testing Requires

SEBI AI Guidelines: What 10k+ Financial Entities Must Do

SEBI AI Guidelines: What 10k+ Financial Entities Must Do

SEBI’s May 5, 2026, circular (HO/13/19/12(1)2026-ITD-1_CIMGI/10873/2026) is addressed to every category of regulated entity in the Indian securities market — exchanges, depositories, brokers, mutual funds, custodians, credit rating agencies, merchant bankers, portfolio managers, investment advisors, and more. Over 10,000 entities. The subject: AI-driven vulnerability detection tools like “Claude Mythos” and the new risk dimensions they… Read More »SEBI AI Guidelines: What 10k+ Financial Entities Must Do