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New agent Intentest uses DAG to improve automated cybersecurity penetration testing

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Researchers have developed Intentest, a novel agent designed for long-horizon automated penetration testing in cybersecurity. This agent addresses context forgetting and intent drift in LLM-based systems by externalizing state onto a persistent fact-intent directed acyclic graph (DAG). Intentest stores verified network states as fact nodes and exploration directions as intent edges, significantly reducing invalid transitions and improving exploration efficiency. Evaluated on real Capture the Flag challenges, Intentest achieved an 88.2% overall success rate, a substantial improvement over baseline methods, particularly on harder tasks. AI

IMPACT Enhances LLM capabilities in complex, long-horizon cybersecurity tasks, potentially improving automated vulnerability discovery.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing a new method for automated penetration testing using LLMs and DAGs. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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New agent Intentest uses DAG to improve automated cybersecurity penetration testing

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Weizhe Wang, Yitong Zhang, Yao Zhang, Xiaoqiang Di, Zhigang Li, Bin Wu, Guangquan Xu ·

    Staying on the Attack Path: Structured State for Long-Horizon Automated Penetration Testing

    arXiv:2609.07344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language model (LLM) based agents are increasingly applied to cybersecurity tasks such as vulnerability discovery and automated penetration testing. On long-horizon security tasks, however, such agents remain limited by cont…

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