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Strategy is Key: Evaluating the Pentesting Skills of Frontier LLMs

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Summary

Ethiack benchmarked seven frontier LLMs in Hackian's pentest agent: separating Strategizer from Executor roles, Claude Opus 5 leads overall while DeepSeek V4 Pro trades precision for recall.

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This research provides technical context that security teams can use for monitoring and validation.
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