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Public story · 2026-02-28 · source-backed
Hexstrike-AI uses a FastMCP server to orchestrate 150+ specialized AI agents for autonomous scanning, exploitation, and persistence. Dark web actors weaponized it against Citrix NetScaler zero-days (CVE-2025-7775, CVE-2025-7776, CVE-2025-8424) within hours of disclosure, deploying webshells in under 10 minutes. This is the first production-grade offensive framework using MCP as its orchestration backbone — the same protocol builders use for legitimate tooling. The disclosure-to-exploitation window has collapsed to minutes. (Check Point Research, BleepingComputer)
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