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Top 10 Open-Source Red Teaming Utilities for Security Audits & Compliance in 2026
An audited review of the most impactful open-source adversary emulation tools, reconnaissance frameworks, and post-exploitation auditors.
RemoteThreat Bets Security Teams Need to Test What Happens After Defenses Fail
Chris Thompson made a career breaking into banks, nuclear power plants, and defense contractors—and getting paid to do it. Now, he recognizes that red team penetration testing is evolving dramatically. This premise is...
RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform
RemoteThreat emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday with $7 million in pre-seed funding from Osage University Partners and DataTribe for its offensive operations platform. The company was founded by Chris Thompson (CEO)...
Hacker Conversations: Vinnie Liu, Performer Turned Ringmaster
Vinnie Liu was recruited by the NSA when he was just 17 years old. He is now the CEO of Bishop Fox. He says little about his work at the NSA, only that “My first year was on the red team, and in the second year, it was...
Offensive Security Investments Surge as AI Threats Increase
So far, agentic AI has proven more effective for cyberattacks than cyber defense, but that may be changing. Theresa Lanowitz, principal analyst at Omdia, spoke with Dark Reading's senior news director, Rob Wright , at...
Walmart Takes a 'Trusted Agent' Approach to Purple Teaming
Many organizations struggle with the inherent tension between red and blue teams — where offensive security testers and defensive operators often work in silos or even develop adversarial relationships. But Walmart has...
AI’s ‘middle class’ has gotten dramatically better at hacking
As the White House and federal agencies grapple with frontier AI models and their hacking capabilities, researchers are warning that the industry’s “middle class” of smaller models may end up posing a greater threat...
CISO Conversations: Nico Waisman – From Self-Taught Hacker to AI-Driven Offensive Security at XBOW
“I don’t think I ever chose a career in cybersecurity. It chose me.” Well, we’ll see… Nico Waisman was born and still lives in Argentina. If what he says is accurate, it suggests he was born in 1982; one year before a...