Penetration testing was much like taking a battering ram to the door of the fortress. Keep pounding away and maybe find a secret backdoor to enter through. But what happens if pieces of the network ...

Businesses typically try to take steps to defend their digital networks, but many organizations discover their weak points the hard way: when they get slammed with a full-court cyber-attack. The ...

We are often asked by the business leaders and executives we speak to “will penetration testing disrupt our business operations?”. We frequently hear concerns about downtime, impact to customer ...

PEN testing identifies critical vulnerabilities and drives focused remediation efforts. Cyber deception makes tests more realistic and reveals detection gaps. Deception techniques generate actionable ...

Hackers relentlessly probe your organization's digital defenses, hunting for the slightest vulnerability to exploit. And while penetration testing serves as a valuable tool, there might be some areas ...

AI-powered Villager tool reached 11,000 PyPI downloads since July 2025, enabling scalable cyberattacks and complicating forensics.

Following on from our recent post about Pen testing for businesses, we wanted to talk a bit about the idea behind DIY pen testing. If you’re not familiar with the term – pen testing is short for ...

Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack - sounds totally legit Villager, a new ...

Speaking during the virtual (ISC) 2 Security Congress Alex Haynes, CISO at CDL, explored the various pen-testing approaches available to organizations and outlined how companies can determine which is ...

Charles Gillman, head of information security at Moula Money and executive member of the CyberEdBoard Regular penetration testing, or pen testing, is an essential part of understanding your ...

Villager is being pitched as a legitimate AI-powered pentest tool for red teams, but the platform, made by Chinese company Cyberspike, has been loaded almost 11,000 times on PyPI in two months, ...

Source code allegedly belonging to commercial penetration testing software Cobalt Strike has been published on GitHub, potentially providing a new path for hackers to attack companies. Penetration ...