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Oh My Rogue Agent

Yesterday, Hugging Face came out saying they'd detected an AI autonomous-agent-powered cyberattack and that they had to use open-source models to actually investigate and remediate it. Later we heard from OpenAI that their agent was responsible; it happened during an ExploitGym eval, and the agent just drifted off the goal. It escaped the sandbox, reached OpenAI Research Environment, got access to internet, and hacked Hugging Face production environment trying to find the solution for the benchm

July 21, 2026

Introducing Internal Network Scanning: see your network the way an attacker inside it would

Most breaches don't begin with a zero-day but with something ordinary like a forgotten server, an unmanaged network device, a service reachable across a segment that was supposed to be isolated. Internal scanning was supposed to catch exactly that but most scanners match a host's banner and version against a CVE list and flag everything potentially affected, so the few reachable exposures sit lost among thousands that were never exploitable. That noise is expensive now that the window to respon

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June 15, 2026

Continuous PR Security Review

The security findings that end up in incident post-mortems rarely looked dangerous in the PR that introduced them. Not because anyone was careless but because there's nothing in the change that looks wrong. The code does exactly what it says but the problem is in how the app behaves once it's running. A new endpoint ships without a permission check but every other route in the file handles permissions correctly, so nothing about it stands out. Or a response comes back carrying more of a user's

NeoApplication Security

June 1, 2026

How Neo's Agent Architecture Evolved: From One Agent → Plan, Execute & Verify

Our first engineering post covered prompt caching, the infrastructure change that made long-running agentic tasks economically viable. That post assumed a multi-step, multi-agent system already existed. It did not exist on day one. When we started building Neo, the product was a single agent with a sandbox and a large toolset. Today, a typical task runs through optional planning, an Execution agent that delegates to parallel specialized subagents, and a verification loop that can re-run w

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Vulnerability Research

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March 20, 2026

Beyond the Model: Neo Hunts, Exploits, and Proves 22 Zero-Days.

LLMs are a genuine leap forward for vulnerability discovery. Anthropic reported 500+ zero-days from Opus 4.6 and OpenAI's Codex Security discovered 14 CVEs across projects like OpenSSH and GnuTLS. If you've experimented with LLMs for security testing, you've probably been impressed too. The practical reality for a security team deploying AI is messier than the headlines or early POC results suggest. Noise compounds fast. Anthropic brought in external security researchers to help validate the vo

NeoVulnerability Research

March 11, 2026

Inside the benchmark: app architectures, walkthroughs of findings, and what each scanner actually caught

This is Part 2 of our vibe coding security benchmark study. In Part 1, we compared how LLM-based security tools like ProjectDiscovery's Neo and Claude Code performed against traditional SAST and DAST scanners on AI-generated code. We found that LLM-based tools like Neo and Claude Code detected many high-value findings that traditional scanners missed. Between Neo and Claude Code, Neo produced more true positives and fewer false positives because it could validate hypotheses against a running app

NeoVulnerability Research

March 3, 2026

How Neo found an SSRF vulnerability in Faraday, and why it matters for every team that ships code

Executive Summary Neo found a Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Faraday, a widely used HTTP client library in the Ruby ecosystem. This is Neo’s first credited CVE discovery. Neo is ProjectDiscovery’s AI security copilot for tasks like code review and vulnerability discovery. For this finding, Neo reviewed a widely used open source dependency and, without human guidance, surfaced a subtle URL-handling edge case, validated it in runtime, and produced a clear write-up that maint

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Nuclei & Nuclei Template

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May 12, 2026

Nuclei Templates - April 2026

Two releases shipped this cycle - v10.4.2 (April 15) and v10.4.3 (May 5) - delivering deep KEV coverage, a major push into AI/LLM attack surface, fresh Perforce visibility, and broad quality improvements across the template library. 🚀 April Stats Release New Templates CVEs Added First-time Contributors v10.4.2 121 61 15 v10.4.3 105 62 12 Total 226 123 27 * 226 new templates shipped across both releases * 123 CVEs covered, including ~10 actively exploited vulnerabilities

Nuclei & Templates

October 23, 2025

Open by design, trusted by enterprises: how we keep Nuclei templates reliable at scale

At ProjectDiscovery, our greatest strength is our community. Thousands of security researchers, bug bounty hunters, and vulnerability analysts who identify zero‑day vulnerabilities, trending CVEs, and actively exploited vulnerabilities (including those listed in CISA KEV).

Nuclei & Templates

May 31, 2025

Nuclei Templates Monthly - May 2025

Discover the highlights from Nuclei Templates v10.2.1 and v10.2.2 releases: 106 new templates, 57 CVEs covered (including 10 actively exploited KEVs), first-time contributions, a new template bounty program, and key improvements to reduce false positives and negatives.

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Vulnerability Management

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July 21, 2026

Introducing Internal Network Scanning: see your network the way an attacker inside it would

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October 8, 2025

From Detection to Validation: Fixing Broken Vulnerability Workflows

By going beyond version checks, you’ll reduce noise, speed up critical fixes, and keep engineering smiling.

Vulnerability Management

September 3, 2025

The Coverage Lie: Why Current Vulnerability Scanners Fail to Stop Breaches

First-generation scanners drown teams in noise. Only 6% of CVEs are ever exploited, yet attackers weaponize them in hours. ProjectDiscovery, the RSA Sandbox winner, delivers runtime validation and detections within hours so you can act fast, cut false positives, and close real risk.

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Customer Stories

Securing the distributed perimeter: How Elastic scaled proactive detection with ProjectDiscovery Cloud

Before going all-in on ProjectDiscovery Cloud, Elastic had already embraced Nuclei, the open-source vulnerability scanner built for customization and speed, along with other ProjectDiscovery tools like naabu and httpx.

Case Studies

March 4, 2025

How ConnectWise streamlined vulnerability detection with ProjectDiscovery

ConnectWise chose ProjectDiscovery over Tenable Cloud to streamline vulnerability detection across 20,000+ AWS instances. By leveraging ProjectDiscovery’s automation and scalability, they achieved efficient, high-volume security monitoring without operational overhead.

Case Studies

January 30, 2025

How Paddle Strengthened Its Security Posture with ProjectDiscovery

Modern SaaS companies like Paddle face growing security challenges as their platforms expand. To gain full visibility into their attack surface and automate vulnerability detection, Paddle adopted ProjectDiscovery, an open-source security platform that streamlined their security operations.

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Educational Stories

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November 30, 2023

Bug Bounty Etiquette: Our Guide to Polite Hacking (Part Two)

This is the second part of our series on bug bounty etiquette. Part one looks at what you should be doing. Last month we talked about bug bounty etiquette and how to be a good bug bounty hunter; not in the sense of finding more bugs, but rather in how to be the kind of bug bounty hunter people want to work with. This time, we have some advice about what NOT to while bug bounty hunting. Let's get started. 1. Don’t go all out 2. Don’t ignore the rules 3. Don’t report unnecessary stuff 4. Do

Learning & Automation

November 6, 2023

Bug Bounty Etiquette: More than Ethical Hacking (part one)

This is part one of our two-part series on polite hacking, focusing on what to do. Part two talks about what not to do (link coming soon). This blog is not about techniques. It’s not about tools to use, how to find the vulnerability, or anything like that. There are plenty of those out there. It’s much more like an etiquette guide for Bug Bounty reporting, and how working within these social norms can lead to better outcomes for you in your career! Think of it like a cotillion class, or the fa

Learning & Automation

September 27, 2023

Getting Started with ProjectDiscovery in Linux and Windows

"Just for you, we’ve got this brand new blog all about getting started with ProjectDiscovery on Linux AND Windows."

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Company Announcements

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December 3, 2025

Introducing Neo, an AI security engineer for complex security tasks

Neo is a cloud-based AI security engineer that works alongside your team and takes on real security tasks like a true co-engineer. As it operates, it continuously learns your systems and processes, improving over time just like an engineer ramping up on your team. Neo is built as a framework, not as a black box. It combines the reasoning of large language models with purpose-built execution tools, isolated sandboxes, a memory layer that learns your code, architecture and naming, and deep integr

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November 4, 2025

Introducing Credential Monitoring

Imagine discovering that your company's login credentials are sitting in plain sight on the internet, accessible to anyone who knows where to look. Unfortunately, this isn't hypothetical – it's happening right now to organizations worldwide through malware-stolen credentials. The Hidden Threat: Malware-Stolen Credentials Every day, cybercriminals deploy malicious software that quietly steals passwords from infected computers. These "stealer" programs harvest credentials from browsers and appl

AnnouncementsAttack Surface Management

July 28, 2025

ProjectDiscovery v1.3: New navigation, dashboard, and improvements

We're excited to announce ProjectDiscovery v1.3.0, a significant milestone that transforms how security teams discover, analyze, and respond to vulnerabilities across their attack surface. These improvements represent months of engineering effort informed by our community's feedback and real-world deployment scenarios. We can’t wait for security teams to get their hands on v1.3.0 and put these new capabilities to work in their own environments. Redesigned for Speed and Clarity The new v1.3.0

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