Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone
Nightcrawler is a new autonomous penetration testing agent designed to run locally on a smartphone without requiring cloud connectivity. It uses a small AI model to perform network reconnaissance, vulnerability scanning, and reporting, mimicking the behavior of a human pentester.
Why it matters
It demonstrates the increasing capability of edge AI to perform complex cybersecurity tasks autonomously and stealthily.
An autonomous penetration testing agent that runs entirely on a smartphone. Drop the phone on a network, walk away, and it discovers hosts, maps services, finds vulnerabilities, and generates a pentest report — all without cloud connectivity.
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