AI RESEARCH

Hackers or Hallucinators? A Comprehensive Analysis of LLM-Based Automated Penetration Testing

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2604.05719v1 Announce Type: cross The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has created new opportunities for Automated Penetration Testing (AutoPT), spawning numerous frameworks aimed at achieving end-to-end autonomous attacks. However, despite the proliferation of related studies, existing research generally lacks systematic architectural analysis and large-scale empirical comparisons under a unified benchmark.