Escape – The Offensive Security Blog

Escape joins Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program to advance AI-powered offensive security

Good news doesn't arrive alone. This month we joined not one frontier AI program but two! Yesterday we shared that Escape joined OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber. Today we're a verified member of Anthropic's Cyber Verification Program. Both programs solve the same

Announcement

Escape joins OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) to advance AI-powered offensive security

We've been approved for OpenAI's Trusted Access for Cyber preview. For years we've been building toward one idea: offensive security that runs continuously inside engineering, instead of arriving twice a year as a PDF nobody reads past the executive summary. Business-logic DAST first, then

Product updates

Whitebox pentesting is now available in Escape's AI Pentesting - Cascade

Run Escape's AI Pentesting with your source code.

Research

Escape Research team found a PII disclosure in Keycloak. It's now CVE-2026-17059.

Keycloak filters its main users list so a restricted admin sees nothing. The endpoint that lists a role's members skips that filter and hands the same account everyone's email and name. Escape research found it, reported it, and it's now tracked as CVE-2026-17059.

Offensive Security

Automated Penetration Testing: The Complete Guide in 2026

Discover a guide to what automated penetration testing is, how it works, and best practices when looking for a vendor and implementing automated pentesting.

AI pentesting

7 best continuous penetration testing tools in 2026

Continuous penetration testing tools close the gap in coverage left by annual pentests. This guide breaks down the best options, what each tool actually does, and how to choose.

Case Study

How Escape DAST helped Sigma Computing achieve complete GraphQL API endpoint coverage

Sigma Computing needed GraphQL-native DAST, not a REST crawler with GraphQL bolted on. Here's how they got full endpoint coverage and slashed their triage time with Escape.

Research

Why does the rise of Agentic AI force security teams to become research-aware?

Bruce Schneier : "security is a process, not a product". It’s not enough to audit your application once, every new feature introduces new attack surfaces that must be taken into account when evaluating the security of the application as a whole. For example, a company rolling out a

Product updates

AI pentesting, Mission log: July

What we shipped in AI pentesting this month.

Product updates

wp2shell (CVE-2026-63030 + CVE-2026-60137): WordPress pre-auth RCE, now detected by Escape

wp2shell is an unauthenticated RCE chain in WordPress core. It combines two separate vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137. Escape detects it across DAST and AI Pentesting, confirms exploitability, and shows affected assets within its Attack Surface Management.

DAST

Best AI DAST tools in 2026: ranked, compared, and reviewed for enterprise security teams

Every DAST vendor put "AI" on the homepage this year. The word now means ten different things to different tools, and even when discussing with analysts, they mention they give an "AI" badge when a certain capability checks the box. This is our attempt to fix

DAST

How Escape DAST Bypassed Immich's Locked Folder By Finding a Missing Default

How the Escape DAST uncovered a missing default that lets any Immich user read locked-folder photos without the PIN.

Application Security

Best GraphQL security tools in 2026: An in-depth guide, including business logic and enterprise coverage

Discover a practical guide to GraphQL security tools, an in-depth comparison, and how to choose the right ones for your stack.

Product updates

Fix issues with a prompt built for your coding agent

There's a translation step between a security finding and a fix, and it's usually done by hand. Someone opens the issue, reads the description, checks the CVSS score, follows the link to the affected asset, works out which endpoint is actually involved, then writes all of

Announcement

Introducing Escape's Partner Program

Join Escape's partner program to build offensive security into every stack, together.

AI pentesting

Modern AI-powered Pentesting Tools In-Depth benchmark

If you're evaluating AI for offensive security right now, you're weighing two questions at once. The first: why not skip the tooling and point a frontier model at your apps yourself? The second: among the AI pentesting tools you could actually buy, which one earns the

AI pentesting

Two Critical Vulnerabilities, One AI Pentester: How Cascade Found an Unauthenticated RCE and Walked Around the WAF

TL;DR We pointed Cascade, Escape's AI pentesting solution, at a single Spring + JSP customer portal. It came back with two findings that are typically difficult for traditional Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) scanners to detect: * Unauthenticated RCE via SpEL injection. A ref request parameter was dropped, unsanitized,

Pentesting

Race against the Machine: Can you match AI's pentesting time?

Race our AI in a series of pentesting challenges to try and beat its time.

Case Study

How Escape helped Bridgetech Group replace pentests with automated evidence

Security scanning that doesn't feel like going to the dentist. See how Bridgetech Group uses Escape for authenticated security testing and API scanning, replacing costly manual pentests with customer-ready security evidence for ISO 27001 and enterprise procurement.

Webinar recap

Claude in Security Engineering: From Proof-of-Concept to Production

Senior Security Engineer Geet Pradhan and Escape CEO Tristan Kalos run through how to use Claude to automate security engineering through threat modeling, detection engineering, and incident response

AI pentesting

Introducing Cascade: the multi-agent penetration testing that becomes an expert in your business

Escape CASCADE allows you to run deep, human-grade assessments across your whole attack surface, proves every finding with a working exploit, and gets more expert in your business with every engagement.

Case Study

How one of the leading FinTech platforms used Escape to automate business logic security testing at scale

How one of Europe's leading FinTech platforms automated business logic security testing and shifted to continuous, AI-driven coverage at scale.

Agentic Pentesting

How Escape AI Pentesting Exploited SSRF in LiteLLM

At Escape, we routinely test the AI infrastructure that teams deploy inside their cloud environments. LLM gateways, RAG pipelines, model proxies: these are services that make outbound HTTP requests by design, which makes them natural targets for SSRF. When we looked at LiteLLM, we found three confirmed SSRF sinks, a

Application Security

Escape AI Pentesting Agents 2.0 - A Deep Dive

What each agent actually does (BOLA, Regression testing agent, Business logic testing agent, and others..), how they coordinate, and what you can expect from Escape's AI pentesting product in the upcoming weeks.

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