Introducing pathrunner: An AWS privilege escalation framework

Summary by Cyber Security News20 Oct 2026, 02:00 CET

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Introducing pathrunner, a modular, cloud-native offensive security framework that automates the exploitation of AWS IAM privilege escalation paths.

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