[2606.24496] Red-Teaming the Agentic Red-Team
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arXiv:2606.24496 (cs)
[Submitted on 23 Jun 2026]
Title:Red-Teaming the Agentic Red-Team
Authors:Dario Pasquini, Michal Bazyli, Taras Fedynyshyn, Artem Sorokin<br>View a PDF of the paper titled Red-Teaming the Agentic Red-Team, by Dario Pasquini and 3 other authors
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Abstract:The use of agentic systems to perform offensive security operations has moved from a theoretical possibility to a commoditized capability. However, while the community has focused on creating more and more capable agents, less attention has been allocated to assessing the security of those systems.
In this work, we present the first in-depth security analysis of the most widely used agentic systems for offensive security operations. We show that most of these tools share common design flaws that enable an active adversary to exfiltrate API keys, establish persistent footholds, and fully compromise the operator's machine, even when the agent operates inside a sandboxed container. To support our analysis, we introduce a full cyber kill chain for such agentic systems, capturing the progression from initial LLM manipulation to lateral movement, persistence, guardrail bypass, and sandbox escape.
Building on our security analysis, we derive a robust architecture for agentic offensive-security tools and propose actionable, broadly applicable design principles that mitigate the disclosed attack paths at the architectural level.
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Cryptography and Security (cs.CR); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.24496
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Submission history<br>From: Dario Pasquini [view email]<br>[v1]<br>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:27:58 UTC (56 KB)
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