Cyber agents hide critical weaknesses behind successful attack workflows

Across enterprise-like lateral-movement scenarios, diagnostic evaluation exposed costly retries, weak recovery, and overly optimistic validation that success rates missed.

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Saeedeh Lohrasbi · Mohammad Mamun · Ahmed Yehia · Scott Buffett · Sherif Saad

National Research Council · University of Windsor

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Lohrasbi et al.

The authors evaluated an Autonomous Adversary system in two enterprise-like lateral-movement scenarios.

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Multi-stage LLM cyber agents face persistent bottlenecks in credential and lateral-movement tasks that success rates alone do not reveal.

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