Big Enough to Break Out: Tracking the Rising Capability of LLM Penetration-Testing Agents

arXiv:2609.10780 · cs.CR · Submitted 2026-09-09 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-09

Updated: 2026-09-09

Comments: 17 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Human-in-the-Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

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