Cracken
Cybersecurity AI · Penetration Testing
3open roles
200+team · employees, estimated range
2023founded
19stories in the press
Overview
AI penetration testing and adversarial exposure validation across the full kill chain. Cracken proves which attack paths are exploitable, on your own infrastructure.
How Cracken hires
Truth index
D 53/100
Ghost roles
78%
Stale roles
0%
Reposted roles
0%
Cracken scores D on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 9 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 78% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. It measures how much of what this employer publishes turns into a real, finite search - not the employer as a workplace. How the index is computed
Funding and backers
Team
201-500
employees, estimated range
Hiring now
9
open roles
Momentum
15/100
rising traction
Last sign of life
1 mo ago
a posting or a news item
The story so fareach stage dated by its source: the company's releases, the press, registers, filings
Nov 10
Hiring paused no new role in 60 days after 11 in half a year
Jul 28
Launched Cracken Releases Open-Source Tool to Bait AI Cyber Attackers · morningstar.com
2023
Founded
Tractionpublic signals, read monthly
Web presence
top 3%
of 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
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Jobs
≈ $94k – $247k per year (Estimated) · Remote (EU, Europe) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp · Master's Degree
Python
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AI Agents
Haystack
RAG
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Hybrid · Full-Time · 4+ years exp
JavaScript
TypeScript
AI Agents
LLM
Human-in-the-Loop
Frontend
React.js
DevOps
WebSockets
Docker
GitHub
Design
Figma
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≈ $92k – $241k per year (Estimated) · Remote (EU, Europe) · Full-Time · 5+ years exp
C++
AI Agents
DevOps
Linux
Windows
Cybersecurity
MITRE ATT&CK
Cyber Kill Chain
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Growth
Hiring Momentum
51/100
Stable
Open positions
9
0 opened / 2 closed in 30 days
Median time-to-fill
133 days
faster than 8% of the market
ATS activity
Every ~5 hours
Today
Hiring Dynamics
+100%
Hiring Focus
The percentage next to each role is its share of the company's job openings over the last 90 days; the arrow shows the shift versus the previous period.
Sales
67% ▼
Marketing
33% ▼
Activity Timeline
Added WebSockets to stack
Sep 2026
Added TypeScript to stack
Sep 2026
Added LLM to stack
Sep 2026
Added Human-in-the-Loop to stack
Sep 2026
Added Docker to stack
Sep 2026
Added Windows to stack
Sep 2026
Added Linux to stack
Sep 2026
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Cracken over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
Technologies in use
24
Postings analysed
6
Stack modernity
83/100AI adopter
Languages
Python
JavaScript
C++
TypeScript
Frameworks & libraries
React.js
Haystack
LangChain
LlamaIndex
Databases
PostgreSQL
Cloud & platforms
Figma
GitHub
GitLab
Linux
AI & ML
LLM
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News
Cracken opens self-serve access to its AI-powered offensive cybersecurity platform
Cracken launched a self-serve tier of its proactive security platform starting at $199 a month, weeks after AI models broke out of test environments
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Detect and stop AI-driven attacks before they reach real assets, with 97.8% reliability. Introducing Project BlackSea.
Contents Introducing BlackSea How it works What happens when a bait is tripped What we found What this means for your security team Questions to ask your vendor Put BlackSea to work .bs-toc a:hover{color:#ff3355 !important;} In 2024, Dario Pasquini, now o
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RedLineBench: An Open Benchmark for Refusal vs. Capability in AI Red Teaming
By Dario Pasquini (Head of AI), Luca Mannini (Research Engineer), Artem Sorokin (CEO), and Michal Bazyli (Founding Cybersecurity Researcher - AI). Cracken AI Lab. TL;DR. A model can fail an offensive-security task two ways: it refuses (easy to spot), or i
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Red-Teaming the Agentic Red-Teamer Part.2
OutlineAbout this blog postClaude Code non sand-boxedClaude Code sand-boxedSandbox Inheritance and Execution ModelSecurity Properties and LimitationsPayload AdaptationLateral movement and persistenceAbout this blog postIn the first part of this research,
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Red-Teaming the Agentic Red-Teamer Part.1
OutlineAbout this blog postHoneypot Design and Attack MethodologyEvaluation of Agentic SystemsRedAmonStrixCAICyber AutoAgentLateral movement and persistenceWhy you should care about safetyConclusion and Future WorkAgentic pen-testers are everywhere. At th
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Mythos Brought It to the Boardroom. Now Weaponize Defense.
I ran a webinar this week called "Inside the Mythos Moment: A Practitioner's Read for CISOs and Their Boards." I didn't want to write another recap of what Anthropic announced. There are plenty of those. I wanted to walk through what the moment actually m
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Best OSINT Browser Extensions for Chrome: A Red Team Analyst's Guide
At a certain stage in the development of OSINT analytics, there comes a moment when knowledge alone is no longer enough-neither are Start.me pages filled with tons of links, nor even Obsidian or Notion for documentation. At some point, you no longer know
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Offices
Where the company hires and what each office is for
Cities
1
Hiring now
0
Countries
1
Palo Alto
United States
HQ
200-500 est. staff