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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...

The State of Pentesting Report: Don’t Miss the Trees for the Forest

July 13, 2026
Est Read Time: 4 min
There’s a common expression that urges “Don’t miss the forest for the trees.” It points to the tendency we humans have...
State of Pentesting

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
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