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CyberArena: Benchmarking AI Agents in Live Symmetric Attack-and-Defense Combat
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Publication date unknown · First observed: 22 Oct 2026
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Why it matters
CyberArena addresses a gap in assessing autonomous AI attack and defense capabilities under adaptive adversarial pressure that static security benchmarks can miss.
CyberArena is a dynamic benchmark in which AI agents simultaneously attack and defend changing services in isolated sandboxes, testing vulnerability discovery, exploitation, and patching. The paper describes automated environment generation and an evaluation involving 12 frontier LLM agents, 40 challenges, and 466 matches.