CyberArena: Benchmarking AI Agents in Live Symmetric Attack-and-Defense Combat

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Bangya Liu, Jianhong Tu, Yueyang Pan, Hanhong Zhao, Zhe Ye, Hongwei Li, Saastha Vasan, Katherine Lambert, Junmin Zhu, Hao Wang, Jienan Chen, Yunze Xiao, Minglai)

Summary by Cyber Security News15 Oct 2026, 06:00 CEST

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arXiv:2610.19005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI agents are demonstrating increasingly strong offensive and defensive cybersecurity capabilities in the real world. Current benchmarks mostly evaluate agents in isolation against static targets. Real cyber operations, however, are dynamic and coupled: security postures constantly change as attackers and defenders adapt to each other in real time.

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