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PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation

As of 14 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 19 of 19 outbound references and 3 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2502.09484.

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measured 3 of 3 inbound itemization

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Outbound references

Observation 54076f47-2940-4757-a1d4-5bdce3b1bcf7 · outbound

This paper cites In: Proceedings of 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Con- ference on Software Engineering (ICSE).

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: Proceedings of 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Con- ference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

Reference 1

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Observation b0740eed-e1f6-46b7-b878-d1e19c6f7265 · outbound

This paper cites AI-Enhanced Ethical Hacking: A Linux-Focused Experiment.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation AI-Enhanced Ethical Hacking: A Linux-Focused Experiment

Reference 2

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This paper cites an unresolved cited work.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation Unresolved cited work

Reference 3

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Observation c975083b-1fa0-4c93-847c-c9762ccfd905 · outbound

This paper cites AI-Augmented Ethical Hacking: A Practical Examination of Manual Exploitation and Privilege Escalation in Linux Environments.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation AI-Augmented Ethical Hacking: A Practical Examination of Manual Exploitation and Privilege Escalation in Linux Environments

Reference 4

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Observation 38773164-7d6d-49b4-9c98-e689b5d28885 · outbound

This paper cites In: Security and Trust Management.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: Security and Trust Management

Reference 5

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This paper cites In: Proceedings of ITASEC and SERICS, Bologna, Italy (Feb 2025), https://www.chrismitchell.net/Papers/aehwaa.pdf.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: Proceedings of ITASEC and SERICS, Bologna, Italy (Feb 2025), https://www.chrismitchell.net/Papers/aehwaa.pdf

Reference 6

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Observation 7b737b4b-36c5-4ada-897a-4f8a9a4cb004 · outbound

This paper cites In: Joshi, A., Carminati, B., Verma, R.M.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: Joshi, A., Carminati, B., Verma, R.M

Reference 7

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This paper cites In: Larochelle, H., Ranzato, M., Hadsell, R., Balcan, M., Lin, H.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: Larochelle, H., Ranzato, M., Hadsell, R., Balcan, M., Lin, H

Reference 8

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Observation ad9c9986-4ecc-4147-9699-27af19809162 · outbound

This paper cites In: Proceedings of the SecAI 2024, the Workshop on Security and Artificial Intelligence (co-located with ESORICS 2024), Bydgoszcz, Poland.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: Proceedings of the SecAI 2024, the Workshop on Security and Artificial Intelligence (co-located with ESORICS 2024), Bydgoszcz, Poland

Reference 9

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Observation 05cfaafb-896c-4141-8475-f6dccd865d67 · outbound

This paper cites IEEE Ac- cess 11, 80218–80245 (2023).

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation IEEE Ac- cess 11, 80218–80245 (2023)

Reference 10

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Observation fe1d0823-be61-4ef3-9464-ca578866a97e · outbound

This paper cites WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 9(4), e1306 (2019).

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation WIREs Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery 9(4), e1306 (2019)

Reference 11

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Observation 1f4d1194-8496-40cc-9bb0-18b5f7e8a2df · outbound

This paper cites In: IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2023 — Workshops, Delft, Netherlands, July 3-7, 2023.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy, EuroS&P 2023 — Workshops, Delft, Netherlands, July 3-7, 2023

Reference 12

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Observation 636a0a60-6d6d-4dee-96b3-9f7b535935a5 · outbound

This paper cites ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation ArtPrompt: ASCII Art-based Jailbreak Attacks against Aligned LLMs

Reference 13

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Observation c6f9bc65-a785-48d4-a836-6eca23d3a6e0 · outbound

This paper cites In: Proceedings of the SecAI 2024, the Workshop on Security and Ar- tificial Intelligence (co-located with ESORICS 2024), Bydgoszcz, Poland.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: Proceedings of the SecAI 2024, the Workshop on Security and Ar- tificial Intelligence (co-located with ESORICS 2024), Bydgoszcz, Poland

Reference 14

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Observation 5a9a7c7d-0e00-4088-8bdb-77458bdc999f · outbound

This paper cites In: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP).

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP)

Reference 15

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This paper cites Special Publi- cation 800-115, National Institute of Standards and Technology (2008), https: //csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-115/final.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation Special Publi- cation 800-115, National Institute of Standards and Technology (2008), https: //csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-115/final

Reference 16

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Observation 90e9e9a6-a792-4378-a364-a58da6916183 · outbound

This paper cites In: Guyon, I., von Luxburg, U., Bengio, S., Wallach, H.M., Fergus, R., Vishwanathan, S.V.N., Garnett, R.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation In: Guyon, I., von Luxburg, U., Bengio, S., Wallach, H.M., Fergus, R., Vishwanathan, S.V.N., Garnett, R

Reference 17

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This paper cites https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROSPW59978.2023.00034, https: //doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW59978.2023.00034.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation https://doi.org/10.1109/EUROSPW59978.2023.00034, https: //doi.org/10.1109/EuroSPW59978.2023.00034

Reference 280

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This paper cites https://doi.org/10.1145/3422337.3450357, https://doi.

PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation https://doi.org/10.1145/3422337.3450357, https://doi

Reference 334

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Pith citing papers

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PenTest2.0: Towards Autonomous Privilege Escalation Using GenAI cites this paper.

PenTest2.0: Towards Autonomous Privilege Escalation Using GenAI PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation

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Observation 8bfe3b90-3ad0-4f5f-a164-d00cf126d2a7 · inbound

STRIDE-AI: A Threat Modeling Framework for Generative AI Security Assessment cites this paper.

STRIDE-AI: A Threat Modeling Framework for Generative AI Security Assessment PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation

Reference 11

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Observation 0a3d033b-75d4-471a-87e1-827e61d1b54c · inbound

A Survey of LLM-Driven Penetration Testing: Taxonomy, Co-Evolution, and Open Challenges cites this paper.

A Survey of LLM-Driven Penetration Testing: Taxonomy, Co-Evolution, and Open Challenges PenTest++: Elevating Ethical Hacking with AI and Automation

Reference 65

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