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On the Surprising Efficacy of LLMs for Penetration-Testing
Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito
This paper presents a critical examination of the surprising efficacy of Large Language Models (LLMs) in penetration testing. The paper thoroughly reviews the evolution of LLMs and…
Recognition Without Mitigation: Ethical Frameworks in Autonomous Offensive-LLM Agent Research
Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito
Large language models have moved from advising on offensive security to autonomously conducting it. A growing literature presents agents that execute reconnaissance, exploitation,…
Benchmarking Practices in LLM-driven Offensive Security: Testbeds, Metrics, and Experiment Design
Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as a powerful approach for driving offensive penetration-testing tooling. Due to the opaque nature of LLMs, empirical methods are typicall…
Can LLMs Hack Enterprise Networks? Autonomous Assumed Breach Penetration-Testing Active Directory Networks
Andreas Happe, Jürgen Cito
Enterprise penetration-testing is often limited by high operational costs and the scarcity of human expertise. This paper investigates the feasibility and effectiveness of using La…