BreachLock

09/01/2026

Financial institutions have invested heavily in security. But in 2026, the biggest risks are no longer concentrated at the perimeter.

According to the Banking & Financial Services findings in BreachLock’s 2026 Pe*******on Testing Intelligence Report, Broken Access Control (22%) remains the most prevalent OWASP vulnerability category, followed by Injection Flaws (18%) and Security Misconfigurations (14%).

As regulations like DORA drive greater accountability, the focus is shifting from vulnerability discovery to proving resilience against realistic attack scenarios.

📊 Explore the OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities impacting Banking & Financial Services and find actionable strategies to strengthen proactive security in our 2026 Pe*******on Testing Intelligence Report: https://hubs.ly/Q04w5Hnc0

08/28/2026

Most security teams can name Gartner's five CTEM stages, but fewer teams can say which solution actually fulfills each stage.

👉 Scoping and Discovery come down to visibility. Attack surface management maps what's exposed and inventories it continuously, so teams are prioritizing based on the real environment instead of last quarter's asset list.
👉 Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization come down to something different: knowing what's actually exploitable, not just what's technically vulnerable. That's where adversarial exposure validation and continuous pentesting take over, chaining vulnerabilities the way an attacker would and testing whether controls hold up under real pressure.

See the full stage-by-stage mapping in our blog: https://hubs.ly/Q04vJ4kx0

Learn how ASM, continuous pentesting, and AEV map to the five stages of Gartner's CTEM framework, from scoping to mobilization.

08/28/2026

Real attackers don't follow a script. They pivot when defenses hold, use credentials in unexpected ways, and adapt as your environment responds.

Breach360™ is named for that same ability, moving across internal and external network and web environments, within the scope you authorize.

It chains weaknesses, tests business logic, and pivots the way a senior pentester would, building the full attack path from entry point to critical asset, with the option for you to give explicit approval before privilege escalation or lateral movement.

The result is proof of what's actually exploitable, not just another list of findings.

Book a demo to see how far an attacker could really get in your environment. https://hubs.ly/Q04vHDGW0

08/27/2026

Breach360™ is now live! 🌐

Yesterday, we introduced Breach360, our agentic offensive security platform built on intelligence from 40,000+ real-world pe*******on tests.

Organizations can start experiencing a new approach to security validation that combines attack surface intelligence, exposure validation, and autonomous pe*******on testing in a single solution designed to think like a senior pentester and operate at machine speed.

✅ Proves what's exploitable
✅ Validates real attack paths
✅ Unified web and network pentesting
✅ Production-safe autonomous testing
✅ Optional human-verified results

Security teams don't just need more findings. They need confidence in what truly matters. Breach360 helps teams cut through the noise by validating risk, confirming exploitability, and uncovering real attack paths before adversaries do.

Learn more: https://hubs.ly/Q04vqQ2C0

08/26/2026

The cybersecurity industry has become very good at finding vulnerabilities. The next challenge is determining which vulnerabilities actually matter. In our latest blog, we explore:

• Why Autonomous Pe*******on Testing is reshaping offensive security
• The shift from vulnerability discovery to exploitability validation
• The role of human oversight in AI-driven security validation

Read the blog: https://hubs.ly/Q04vqh-70

Autonomous pentesting validates exploitability, maps attack paths, and helps security teams prioritize remediation without adding headcount.

08/25/2026

Healthcare organizations may see fewer critical vulnerabilities than some commercial sectors, but the stakes are significantly higher when patient data and care systems are involved.

In our fifth annual Pe*******on Testing Intelligence Report, BreachLock found Broken Access Control (22%) as the most common healthcare vulnerability, followed by Security Misconfiguration (17%), Cryptographic Failures (14%), and Injection flaws (13%).

Get the full report for more healthcare security benchmarks and insights from 4,970 real-world pe*******on tests. https://hubs.ly/Q04vch4-0

*******onTesting

08/24/2026

Three Claude agents were given the same code migration task in different languages, unaware of each other, and within four hours they were sabotaging one another, disabling accounts, killing processes, and writing self-replicating malware to block their rivals. No prompt injection. No outside attacker. Just autonomous systems pursuing competing goals with the means to act on them.

TechRadar Pro covered Anthropic's experiment and brought in security leaders for perspective, including our Founder & CEO Seemant Sehgal. His take? Conflict between autonomous agents isn't a bug; it's a predictable outcome when systems are given objectives without constraints. Security teams need to know what their agents will do the moment nobody is watching, before it happens in production.

As agentic AI moves deeper into enterprise workflows, this kind of scenario planning matters more every day.

Read the full story: https://hubs.ly/Q04v2Qxz0

Killing processes, disabling rival accounts, and building self-replicating malware

08/21/2026

A cyberattack on Polish med-software provider has exposed data on nearly 19 million people, roughly half of Poland's population, including national ID numbers and health records.

Information Security Media Group (ISMG)'s Bank Info Security spoke with BreachLock's Seemant Sehgal about what the incident reveals about centralized health data risk.

When one platform holds prescriptions, national ID numbers, and appointment histories for tens of millions of people, the stakes of a compromise are extraordinary. It's a reminder that the real work is proactive. Continuously validating where sensitive data lives, testing the guardrails around it, and closing gaps before attackers find them.

Read the full piece: https://hubs.ly/Q04tVPZ80

08/21/2026

Shadow AI is quietly outpacing shadow IT as the bigger enterprise risk, and it's far harder to see. ReversingLabs dug into why. Unsanctioned AI use doesn't leave the kind of trail that unsanctioned software does. There's no rogue app on the network, no device to flag, just a prompt and a response that vanish the moment the tab closes.

Our Founder and CEO, Seemant Sehgal, made the point that this changes how organizations should benchmark exposure. An unapproved SaaS tool a decade ago still left a DNS query behind. An employee pasting sensitive deal terms into a consumer AI assistant today leaves almost nothing for security teams to find. Any exposure organizations think they're measuring is likely only a fraction of what's actually happening.

Read the full story: https://hubs.ly/Q04tRZ4q0

Organizations don’t realize how pervasive shadow AI has become. And as AI's capability grows, shadow use is harder to manage.