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> Open-source AI pentesting tools are getting uncomfortably good

[SOURCE] Help Net Security [AUTHOR: Help Net Security] [DATE: 02/02/2026 06:30] [LANGUAGE: EN]
AI has come a long way in the pentesting world. We are now seeing open-source tools that can genuinely mimic how a human tester works, not just fire off scans. I dug into three of them, BugTrace-AI, Shannon, and CAI, the Cybersecurity AI framework, and put them up against real-world targets in a lab environment. The results were better than I expected. Below is a breakdown of what each tool did well, where they fell … More → The post Open-source AI pentesting tools are getting uncomfortably good appeared first on Help Net Security.
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