How attackers see you now

About 700 AI agents broke out of an evaluation and breached Hugging Face. Every vulnerability class they used was old. The first door they walked through was already open to the internet.

External penetration testing isn't dead. The assumption behind it is.

Mandiant's average went from 63 days to minus seven. We checked every vulnerability CISA confirmed as exploited this year against its publication date. Half were confirmed within four days.

A vulnerability tells you something is wrong with the software. Exploitability tells you what an attacker can do about it, from where they actually stand. Only the second one should set your priorities.

Mythos isn't public, and some of the hype is overstated. What's real is the price drop: known bugs become working exploits in hours, and small flaws get chained. The gap is knowing which ones are exploitable on your perimeter.

Every vendor has an agent now, and so do the attackers. The difference is what happens between "the agent found something" and "this reaches your team": who checked it, how it was proven, and where somebody decided to stop.

Trivy, LiteLLM and axios fell within two weeks, and none of them through their code. Every link in the chain ran on a credential that had leaked and was still valid.

Most of the conversation is about agents going rogue. From the offensive side, what breaks in is access nobody mapped. Five attack paths we walked in 2026, and what to do this week.

What red teaming is, how AI changes it, and what governance your board should require.

Published vendor prices, seven cost drivers, six questions to ask before signing, and why annual testing leaves gaps.

ASM finds what is exposed. Red teaming proves what is exploitable. A side-by-side comparison with real data.

Shadow AI copies code, credentials and logic outside the organization at scale. Here is what the numbers say and what to do about it.