7ASecurity

13/10/2026

🔐 What happens after an attacker gains access to your Active Directory?

⚠️ A single low-privilege account can become a path to complete domain compromise.

🔍 Our latest guide breaks down the five phases of Active Directory pe*******on testing:

🎯 Scoping the starting position

🚪 Initial foothold

🔑 Credential harvesting

⬆️ Privilege escalation

👑 Domain dominance

💡 The real risk isn’t just individual vulnerabilities. It’s how attackers chain them together.

🛡️ Learn how AD pentesting uncovers attack paths and helps prioritise the fixes that matter most.

👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/10/active-directory-pe*******on-testing-engagements/

Active Directory pe*******on testing runs through five phases. 1. Scoping the starting position. 2. Gaining an initial foothold. 3. Harvesting credentials. 4. Escalating privilege. 5. Proving domain dominance. Each phase builds on the last one's findings. The report prioritises fixes based on which....

06/10/2026

☸️ Your Kubernetes cluster can pass a compliance scan and still leave attackers a path to sensitive data.

🔐 Over-permissioned RBAC roles

🚪 Exposed control-plane components

🌐 Missing network policies

📦 Unsafe pod defaults

🛡️ Weak admission control

Individually, these may look like configuration issues. Chained together, they can become a real attack path.

🔎 See the five Kubernetes security gaps our testers keep finding:

👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/10/kubernetes-security-gaps/

Kubernetes security testing checks whether a cluster's controls hold up under an attacker's logic, not just whether they exist on paper. There are five misconfiguration categories our testers find most often. 1) RBAC gaps granting too much access. 2) Exposed control-plane components. 3) Missing netw...

29/09/2026

☁️ A cloud misconfiguration isn’t just a bad setting. It can become an attack path.

🔐 Over-permissioned IAM roles
🚪 Exposed management interfaces
🔗 Unreviewed account trust
👁️ Logging nobody watches

CSPM tools can flag these issues. A pe*******on test shows whether an attacker can actually exploit and chain them to reach sensitive data or systems.

🔍 See what cloud misconfiguration looks like in a real security audit:

👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/09/cloud-misconfiguration-real-audit/

Cloud misconfiguration turns up in four recurring patterns. 1) Over-permissioned roles give an attacker a path to sensitive data. 2) Management interfaces sit reachable without MFA. 3) Account trust goes unreviewed, and 4) logging exists but nobody watches it. A CSPM tool flags each as a setting. Wh...

23/09/2026

🚨 The OWASP LLM Top 10 has changed for 2026. Is your AI security testing keeping up?

🤖 Prompt injection
🔓 Sensitive data exposure
⚡ Excessive agency
☠️ Data & model poisoning
💸 Unbounded consumption

Knowing the risks is one thing. Testing whether they can actually be exploited in a production AI application is another.

🔍 See all 10 risks and how security teams can test them in practice:

👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/09/owasp-top-10-llm-applications/

The OWASP LLM Top 10 names ten specific risks in LLM-powered apps: prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, and seven more, each with its own attack pattern. Testing against these risks means chaining a planted instruction through to real data exposure or confirming that rate limits cap cos...

22/09/2026

📢 New 7ASecurity public report

🔐 Bayanat audited by 7ASecurity: 43 findings & recommendations, all resolved & verified. ✅

🔗 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/09/bayanat-audit-by-7asecurity/
💬 Feedback welcome

15/09/2026

🤖 AI red teaming and AI pe*******on testing are NOT the same thing.

🔍 AI pentesting finds vulnerabilities and builds your security baseline.
🎯 AI red teaming asks whether a real adversary can achieve their objective without getting caught.
Choosing the wrong assessment can leave important security gaps untested.

Our latest guide explains the differences and when your organisation needs each approach.
👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/09/ai-red-teaming-vs-ai-pe*******on-testing/

AI red teaming and AI pe*******on testing are not the same thing. AI pe*******on testing looks for every possible vulnerability to build a secure baseline. AI red teaming simulates a targeted attack to test your detection and response capabilities. Choose an AI security assessment based on your curr...

09/09/2026

🔐 Your API works. But does its security hold up?

API pentesting goes beyond authentication. Broken authorization, hidden endpoints, business logic flaws, token issues, and resource abuse can expose attack paths automated checks miss.

🔍 Our latest guide walks through API pe*******on testing methodology—from scoping and endpoint mapping to testing and OWASP API Security Top 10 reporting 📊.

👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/09/api-pentesting-guide/

API pe*******on testing methodology starts with scoping and endpoint mapping. From there, it moves through authentication, authorisation, and business logic testing. Findings then get mapped back to the OWASP API Security Top 10. This piece walks through that process from a tester's side. An API (Ap...

08/09/2026

📢 New 7ASecurity public report

🔐 Incus audited by 7ASecurity: 14 vulnerabilities found, all resolved & verified. ✅

https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/09/incus-security-audit-7asecurity/

💬 Feedback welcome

01/09/2026

☁️ Think cloud pentesting is just network testing in AWS, Azure, or GCP?

Think again.

Cloud risk often lives in IAM permissions, exposed storage, serverless functions, misconfigurations, and trust relationships—not just firewalls and open ports.

🔍 Our latest guide explains how cloud pentesting works, what providers allow you to test, and where real attack paths can hide.

👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/08/cloud-pe*******on-testing/

Cloud pe*******on testing looks different from a standard network test. The risk sits in identity and access management, not firewalls. AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud all let you test your resources without asking first. However, you just must stay inside their published rules. Cloud penetra...

25/08/2026

🤖 Is your LLM secure—or have you only tested what it says?

LLM pentesting needs to go beyond model output. Prompt injection, data leakage, insecure tool integrations, excessive agency, and agent manipulation can all create real attack paths.

🔍 Our latest checklist covers what teams should scope and test across models, agents, plugins, tools, and data sources.

👉 https://7asecurity.com/blog/2026/08/llm-pentesting-checklist/

LLM pentesting needs to cover more than the model's text output. A proper test scopes the model, its plugins, and its data sources. Then, it works through known risk categories, including prompt injection, data leakage, and tool abuse. Shipping an AI feature moves faster than most security processes...