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Sep 11 2025 AI-powered penetration tool, an attacker's dream, downloaded 10K times in 2 months

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Shady, China-based company, all the apps needed for a fully automated attack - sounds totally legit Villager, a new penetration-testing tool linked to a suspicious China-based company and described by researchers as "Cobalt Strike's AI successor," has been downloaded about 10,000 times since its release in July.... [...]

Posted by Jessica Lyons on Thu 11 September 2025 in The Register.

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