Seriously? AI “Pen Testing” Now.

Right, so some idiot decided it was a *good* idea to release an AI-powered pen testing tool called ‘Villager’. It basically lets anyone – and I mean anyone – generate payloads for exploiting vulnerabilities. It’s hit 11,000 downloads on PyPI already because, naturally, people can’t be trusted with anything. The author is now panicking about abuse, shocker. They’ve added rate limiting and some pathetic attempt at filtering, but honestly? It’s like putting a screen door on a submarine.

The tool uses large language models (LLMs) to create the exploit code, which means it’s probably just regurgitating stuff from GitHub anyway. And surprise, surprise, people are using it for malicious shit – scanning networks without permission and generally being awful. The author is wringing their hands about ethical concerns *after* releasing a tool that practically begs for misuse. Honestly, the whole thing smells like naive optimism mixed with a healthy dose of “let’s see what happens!”

They’re trying to play hero now by adding safeguards, but it’s too little, too late. This is just another example of why giving script kiddies superpowers is a terrible idea. Expect more headaches for security teams everywhere. Fantastic.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2025/09/ai-powered-villager-pen-testing-tool.html

Speaking of idiots releasing things they shouldn’t have, I once had a user try to automate database backups with a script he found on some forum. It wiped the production database instead. He claimed it “worked on his test server.” Yeah, well, so does cyanide if you don’t drink enough of it at once. Some people just shouldn’t be allowed near computers.

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