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ai cybersecurity and penetration testing

Recent window: last 5.2 months (2026-04-24 → 2026-09-28), compared with the prior 5.2 months.

security · 184 members · Data as of 2026-09-30

These products use autonomous agents and specialized models to perform security vulnerability detection, penetration testing, and safety auditing. They are primarily used by security teams, ethical hackers, and developers safeguarding both traditional applications and AI agent workflows. Unlike standard static code analyzers, this cluster focuses heavily on automated offensive security, red teaming, and runtime guardrails.

Metrics

Stage
crowded
Recent count
150
Prior count
24
Total count
184
Momentum
300.00
Attention
0.47
Crowding
0.78
Concentration
0.83
Opportunity
0.47

Opportunity components

Attention
0.47
Low crowding
0.22
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Low concentration
0.17

Monthly trajectory

Source split

github
61 (0.41)
hn
34 (0.23)
ph
44 (0.29)
yc
11 (0.07)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.33

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▲ Launched
Get your free AI search visibility scan HN 5 2026-08-30
Open tool for testing your AI Agents (No LLM) HN 5 2026-08-28
I made a local proxy for AI tool calls to keep my API keys safe HN 5 2026-05-05
Deviant HN 5 2026-09-06
Making Autonomous Work Reviewable HN 5 2026-08-13
CardGo HN 5 2026-08-30
Crilio HN 5 2026-08-24
Reflexes API: Catch what agent logs miss YC 5 2026-06-27
A security scanner for AI Agent Skills HN 5 2026-04-10
Sealed evidence record of an AI agent run HN 5 2026-08-18
We Identified a Counterfeit Pharmaceutical Product in Uzbekistan HN 6 2026-01-11
I submitted 316 AI-generated PRs to open source HN 6 2026-05-12
I'm 15. I mass published 134K lines to hold AI agents accountable HN 6 2026-03-01
AI-AGENT-CERTIFICACION GITHUB 6 2026-09-16
n8n-mcp-guard GITHUB 6 2026-09-12
Sentrint, a security scanner for projects build with LLMs HN 6 2026-08-20
I built Exfault, agentic mobile app pentesting tool HN 6 2026-06-29
Retroguard HN 6 2026-05-05
Watch all the AI agents on your machine HN 7 2026-09-22
Security Scanner for Agent Skills and MCP HN 7 2026-05-03
Implit HN 7 2026-04-26
Subverted Academy HN 7 2026-01-30
Teapot HN 7 2026-02-18
ai-usage-taskbar-widget GITHUB 7 2026-09-14
genpark-autonomous-honeypot-canary-sentinel-skill GITHUB 7 2026-09-26
OpenComplAI HN 7 2026-08-14
ai-security-review GITHUB 7 2026-09-23
Digital-Forensics-Lab-Experiments GITHUB 7 2026-09-23
ZeroID HN 7 2026-04-08
Traceforce — Catch risky agent actions your security gateway will never spot YC 7 2026-07-28
AunoForge GITHUB 8 2026-09-12
Palisade - AI that detects and fixes OS vulnerabilities across every endpoint in minutes YC 8 2026-07-23
hand-roll_an_agent GITHUB 8 2026-09-11
awesome-ai-security-research GITHUB 8 2026-09-11
Web-Pentesting-Skills GITHUB 8 2026-09-11
IRANBOT GITHUB 8 2026-09-14
nk-agent GITHUB 8 2026-09-09
cheatbench GITHUB 8 2026-09-15
An AI that keeps your internal documentation alive HN 9 2025-11-03
cyber-vault GITHUB 9 2026-09-23
cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt HN 9 2026-08-04
Xalgorix HN 9 2026-08-19
Daqstra – Test infrastructure shouldn't bottleneck great engineering YC 9 2026-07-23
Agents in Whisper Memos HN 9 2026-04-29
anti-sycophancy-prompt GITHUB 9 2026-09-16
writ GITHUB 9 2026-09-21
Skillgrab HN 9 2026-04-15
opencart-manual-testing GITHUB 9 2026-09-12
NEXUS GITHUB 9 2026-09-13
easy-unlocker GITHUB 10 2026-09-16