in the Real-World Penetration experiment intense with 10 professional pentester's + a live university network + ~8,000 real machines + 12 subnets + production systems and real users
The result was unexpected ARTEMIS outperformed 9 out of 10 human experts, even found vulnerabilities that not a single human found.
🟢 Why AI was stronger?
Not a CTF, Not static CVEs, Not a simulation. A real network with real consequences.
• Humans manually selected targets
• ARTEMIS launched sub-agents and attacked multiple hosts in parallel
• Humans lost clues and went down "rabbit holes"
• ARTEMIS maintained perfect memory, TODO lists, and auto-triaging
• Humans couldn't open outdated web interfaces
• ARTEMIS simply ignored the browser and hacked them via curl -k
Moreover, it ARTEMIS showed 9 confirmed vulnerabilities, 82% valid findings, without human supervision or custom exploits and that too In cost of work ~$18 per hour where human pentester costs ~$60 per hour.
What still holds it back:
— GUI-dependent exploits
— a higher percentage of false positives
In everything else, ARTEMIS acted like a fully equipped red-team:
without fatigue, without ego, with infinite patience.
🔴 AI is no longer "helping" pentester's, AI is starting to competing and in some scenarios already winning
Offensive security begins to change forever.
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