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New AgentTrap honeypot counters autonomous penetration testing agents

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Researchers have developed AgentTrap, a novel closed-loop honeypot system designed to counter autonomous penetration testing agents. Unlike traditional honeypots with static responses, AgentTrap employs sentinel endpoints and stateful deception grounded in the protected application to adapt to evolving attack strategies. Evaluations show AgentTrap significantly reduces the success rate of attacks on real targets and successfully elicits attacker API keys, outperforming static deception methods. AI

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New AgentTrap honeypot counters autonomous penetration testing agents

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yuelin Wang, Jiongchi Yu, Yanbang Sun ·

    AgentTrap: Stateful Feedback Deception against Autonomous Penetration Testing Agents

    arXiv:2610.02869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous penetration testing agents conduct multi-step attacks by continuously adapting their plans and actions to target responses. As a common defense, honeypots can be deployed to divert these agents from real assets by prese…

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