Framework
Open-source penetration testing framework for developing, testing, and executing exploit code, widely used by both security professionals and attackers.
Decepticon, an autonomous red-team agent built on LangChain and LangGraph, reached #13 on GitHub Trending for Python with 5,825 stars and 1,100 forks. Its write-up details how a state machine runs offensive tools end to end while leaving an audit trail.
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Cisco Talos says a Chinese-speaking crew paired PentestGPT and DeepAudit with Metasploit and a 170,000-URL target list to compromise web servers at scale. Every entry flaw named is years old.
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Rapid7 scored it 9.9 and Gogs shipped 0.14.3 on June 7, 2026. The reason it rates that high is configuration: open registration and unlimited repository creation let a stranger own the repo they attack from.
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Hunt.io only found the intrusion because the operator left his staging directory browsable on port 8000 in Amsterdam. The scripts inside needed no passwords, just valid usernames and an ownCloud install nobody had updated.
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Rapid7 published a Metasploit module for CVE-2026-85706, an unauthenticated file read it says is already exploited against self-hosted GitLab. Every CE and EE build from 18.7 stays exposed until 19.1.8, 19.2.6 or 19.3.2.
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Accenture's majority stake closed first, then Dragos completed both acquisitions on Monday. One supplier now holds network discovery, firmware inventory and OT threat detection. Neither price was disclosed.
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Cisco Talos says UAT-10147, a Chinese-speaking group doing SEO fraud and data theft, wired AI tooling into exploitation, validation and persistence. An open directory gave the operation away.
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