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BypassGym: A Benchmark for Evaluating AI Agents’ Endpoint Defense Evasion Capabilities

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Publication date unknown · First observed: 13 Nov 2026

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13 Nov 2026arxiv.orgobservedprimary

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Why it matters

BypassGym’s findings suggest that even lightweight AI agents can automate endpoint-defense evasion, giving defenders a concrete offensive capability to assess against their EDR controls.

BypassGym evaluates whether AI agents can generate and compile loaders that execute command-and-control shellcode without being blocked or terminated by EDR on real Windows virtual machines. Across five lightweight model backends, six EDR products, and three payloads, the authors report that DeepSeek-V4.1 Flash succeeded in 17 of 18 runs.