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ai cybersecurity and penetration testing

Recent window: last 5.1 months (2026-04-24 → 2026-09-27), compared with the prior 5.1 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
147
Prior count
24
Total count
184
Momentum
300.00
Attention
0.47
Crowding
0.77
Concentration
0.83
Opportunity
0.47

Opportunity components

Attention
0.47
Low crowding
0.23
Momentum (normalized)
1.00
Low concentration
0.17

Monthly trajectory

Source split

github
58 (0.39)
hn
34 (0.23)
ph
44 (0.30)
yc
11 (0.07)

Dominant source: github · Divergence: 0.32

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Members

Name Source Upvotes ▼ Launched
MouseCat 🐭🐱 AI-Powered Fraud Investigations YC 20 2026-03-03
Nyx HN 20 2026-04-19
AI Law Tracker HN 20 2026-07-16
plain-backtest GITHUB 20 2026-09-26
sac-agent-skill-assurance GITHUB 20 2026-09-14
1c-testpilot-agent-kit GITHUB 20 2026-09-29
dfirswarm GITHUB 20 2026-09-22
Aurick PH 20 2026-09-23
wrong-answer-labs GITHUB 19 2026-09-27
Deadend CLI HN 18 2026-02-11
Corgea: Agentic Pentesting YC 18 2026-06-24
cell-use GITHUB 18 2026-09-28
Open_Source-CTI-Tooling GITHUB 17 2026-09-20
agentrouter-auto-signin GITHUB 17 2026-09-10
ai-security-tool GITHUB 17 2026-09-10
Atria-bot GITHUB 17 2026-09-18
Cekura Red Teaming: Stress-test your AI agents for Jailbreaks, Bias, Toxicity and more YC 17 2026-01-16
Gilfoyle. An SRE Agent that finds truth while you're still guessing HN 17 2026-01-27
awesome-ai-mass-spec GITHUB 17 2026-09-14
sec-search-rl GITHUB 17 2026-09-17
PentestPi GITHUB 15 2026-09-09
df-labexperiments GITHUB 15 2026-09-23
Superunit: We automate the most soul-crushing job in background checks YC 15 2026-02-03
datacloak GITHUB 14 2026-09-24
Agent Passport HN 14 2026-02-21
AXguard GITHUB 13 2026-09-14
Lucent - AI that automatically watches your session replays YC 13 2026-03-11
SentinelToXDR GITHUB 12 2026-09-29
InspectMind AI – The AI Checker Agent for Construction YC 12 2025-11-27
EvilBox GITHUB 12 2026-09-23
GhostShell GITHUB 12 2026-09-19
Nebula Security: Bringing beyond Mythos protection to your product YC 12 2026-07-23
Awesome-AI-for-Hacking-Cybersecurity GITHUB 11 2026-09-15
paranoid GITHUB 11 2026-09-15
easy-unlocker GITHUB 10 2026-09-16
Agents in Whisper Memos HN 9 2026-04-29
anti-sycophancy-prompt GITHUB 9 2026-09-16
Skillgrab HN 9 2026-04-15
Xalgorix HN 9 2026-08-19
cyber-vault GITHUB 9 2026-09-23
Daqstra – Test infrastructure shouldn't bottleneck great engineering YC 9 2026-07-23
cMCP, deny an AI agent's tool call and get a signed receipt HN 9 2026-08-04
writ GITHUB 9 2026-09-21
opencart-manual-testing GITHUB 9 2026-09-12
NEXUS GITHUB 9 2026-09-13
An AI that keeps your internal documentation alive HN 9 2025-11-03
IRANBOT GITHUB 8 2026-09-14
nk-agent GITHUB 8 2026-09-09
hand-roll_an_agent GITHUB 8 2026-09-11
cheatbench GITHUB 8 2026-09-15