Mehdi BOUTAYEB

Cybersecurity architect, pentester and founder. Building Darkmoon, an open-source autonomous offensive security platform combining AI agents, real pentesting methodologies and infrastructure security.

Joined on Jun 18, 2026

Mehdi BOUTAYEB

Aug 2

Your AI pentester is probably exfiltrating your client's data. Run it air-gapped instead.

#security #privacy #ai #opensource

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Mehdi BOUTAYEB

Aug 2

6 open-source AI pentesters, one OWASP Juice Shop, ranked (reproducible)

#security #ai #opensource #pentesting

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Aug 2

I let an autonomous AI agent try to escape its sandbox. Here is what still reached the internet.

#ai #security #devops #opensource

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Aug 2

I pointed an autonomous AI attacker at a zero-trust demo (OpenNHP). 51 findings on the exposed side, zero on the protected side.

#security #zerotrust #ai #opensource

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Mehdi BOUTAYEB

Aug 2

I ran an autonomous AI pentester on OWASP Juice Shop, on a LOCAL model. 57 real vulns in 28 min.

#ai #security #opensource #machinelearning

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Jul 13

Open source autonomous AI pentesting tools in 2026: an honest field guide

#security #ai #opensource #pentesting

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Jul 10

Let an AI pentest agent use a frontier model without leaking your network

#security #ai #privacy #opensource

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Jul 7

How to read AI pentest benchmark claims: XBEN, 96 percent scores, and what they hide

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Jul 7

The real bottleneck in AI pentesting is validated exploitation, not discovery

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Jul 7

Shannon and Darkmoon: two Claude powered pentesters, compared

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Jul 7

NodeZero is excellent, but it is SaaS: the self hosted open source path

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Jul 7

Open source autonomous pentesting: Darkmoon compared to Strix, PentAGI and Shannon

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Jul 4

The open source AI pentest tools worth knowing in 2026

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Mehdi BOUTAYEB

Jul 4

Autonomous pentesting against Active Directory, without the black box

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Mehdi BOUTAYEB

Jul 4

MCP for offensive security: orchestrating 80+ tools through an MCP host

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Jul 4

Pentera alternatives in 2026, including the open source options

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Jul 4

Why evidence matters more than model memory in AI pentesting

#security #ai #opensource #devsecops

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Mehdi BOUTAYEB

Jun 18

We build Darkmoon: An Open-Source Autonomous Pentesting Platform

#ai #security #cybersecurity #mcp

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