----------------🎯 Threat Intelligence: Agentic Pentesting Frameworks Reach Live Intrusions===================Google Thre...

----------------🎯 Threat Intelligence: Agentic Pentesting Frameworks Reach Live Intrusions===================Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant published a report on October 30, 2026 documenting threat actors operating open-source agentic pentesting platforms inside real intrusions. Named frameworks include ARTEX, Hexstrike and CAIRN, alongside PentAGI and what the authors describe as potentially custom harnesses. This follows a September 2026 GTIG report that tracked forward-leaning adversaries moving from basic LLM prompting to agentic workflows and LLM-enabled automation.🔹 Technical Details• Activity observed since late August 2026 in Mandiant incident response engagements, corroborated by research telemetry. A recent Wiz report notes similar in-the-wild activity.• The frameworks orchestrate multiple agents over open-source and frontier LLMs to automate stages of the intrusion.• In the observed incidents, agents covered significant parts of the attack lifecycle: la...