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An AI Agent Found Admin Access to a $13B Startup in 25 Minutes. Here's the Free Tool It Used, and the Docker Mistake That Made It Possible

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The story that hit the Hacker News front page this week: a security company, Strix, was evaluating Baseten, a $13 billion inference provider, as a vendor. Before handing over their own code and models, they pointed their own tool, an autonomous AI pentesting agent, at *.baseten.co . No credentials.…

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  1. 2026-09-16 03:05 · DEV Community — AI
    An AI Agent Found Admin Access to a $13B Startup in 25 Minutes. Here's the Free Tool It Used, and the Docker Mistake That Made It Possible

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