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Open-source autonomous pentesting platform Darkmoon released

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Darkmoon is a new open-source autonomous penetration testing platform designed to automate complex security assessments beyond simple vulnerability scanning. It focuses on transparency and auditability, with its methodologies and orchestration logic publicly available under a GPLv3 license. The platform integrates over 80 security tools and features 18 specialized agents to handle diverse target environments, including Active Directory, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure, adapting its approach based on discovered technologies. AI

IMPACT Provides an open-source alternative for automating complex penetration tests, emphasizing transparency over proprietary AI.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes a new open-source product release that is not from a frontier AI lab.

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Open-source autonomous pentesting platform Darkmoon released

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Mehdi BOUTAYEB ·

    We build Darkmoon: An Open-Source Autonomous Pentesting Platform

    <p>Darkmoon is an open-source autonomous penetration testing platform released under GPLv3.</p> <p>Before talking about AI, agents or dashboards, it's important to understand that the project was built around a transparent and auditable open-source core.</p> <p>Over the last few …

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