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AI & Pentesting Pulse 2026: The 6 things elite security teams do differently to close the risk gap
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AI & Pentesting Pulse 2026: The 6 things elite security teams do differently to close the risk gap
Cybersecurity Insights Mythos

A CISO’s Perspective: Mythos and the End of Traditional Vulnerability Timelines

For most of my career in security, there has been an underlying assumption that defenders would have at least some...

Part 2 — Decoding Windows CBS Manifests: Building the Decoder

July 9, 2026
Est Read Time: 7 min
This is Part 2 of our previous blog post, Decoding Windows CBS Manifests: Reversing the DCM/PA30 Delta Format.
Cobalt Core

The AI Pentesting Pulse: Decoding the 2.7x Risk Multiplier in LLM Deployments

June 25, 2026
Est Read Time: 6 min
Right now, the media and regulators are hyper-focused on frontier models being pulled back by the government for being...
AI Pentesting

Pentester Spotlight — Dogukan Karaciger

June 18, 2026
Est Read Time: 5 min
The Cobalt Pentester Spotlight highlights the fascinating journey of our Core members. Through an interview style, we...
Cobalt Core

We Built a New Role to Solve a Problem AI Just Made Harder to Ignore

June 11, 2026
Est Read Time: 3 min
The penetration testing landscape is changing fast. AI-assisted testing is compressing timelines. Continuous testing...
AI Pentesting

The Verizon DBIR Says Attackers Are Winning. Our Data Shows It's Getting Worse.

June 9, 2026
Est Read Time: 2 min
Each year, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) provides a snapshot of how attackers operate. This...
Cybersecurity Insights

Decoding Windows CBS Manifests: Reversing the DCM/PA30 Delta Format

June 8, 2026
Est Read Time: 23 min
Introduction While patch diffing a Windows Latest Cumulative Update (LCU) for vulnerability research, I needed to read...
Cobalt Core

Pentester Spotlight — Lucas Bueno

June 3, 2026
Est Read Time: 5 min
The Cobalt Pentester Spotlight highlights the fascinating journey of our Core members. Through an interview style, we...
Cobalt Core

A CISO’s Perspective: Mythos and the End of Traditional Vulnerability Timelines

June 2, 2026
Est Read Time: 3 min
For most of my career in security, there has been an underlying assumption that defenders would have at least some...
Cybersecurity Insights Mythos

How to Get Top-Right of the Offensive Security Leaders Quadrant

May 27, 2026
Est Read Time: 4 min
When we set out to analyze five years of pentesting data for the 2026 State of Pentesting Report—drawing on more than...
Cybersecurity Insights State of Pentesting
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