{
  "id": 12624497,
  "title": "What Is Agentic Pentesting? What It Proves, and Where It Stops.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/what-is-agentic-pentesting-what-it-proves-and-where-it-stops",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-07T11:42:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/what-is-agentic-pentesting-what-it.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "If you’re evaluating an agentic pentesting solution right now, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: point it at a target, and it discovers, validates, and exploits attack paths autonomously, the way a real attacker would. That promise is worth taking seriously. It’s also worth pressure testing, and three questions do the heavy lifting. What can the assessment actually",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}