SpartanX Labs

No slop.
Only proven work.

SpartanX Labs is the offensive security research function behind the platform. It is where we test what we build, in the open, against the hardest public targets, and publish only what we can prove. Every claim on this page is exploit-validated.

Proving grounds
Why this matters

In a market full of unvalidated noise, we publish only proven findings.

Bug bounty programs and security teams are being buried under AI-generated submissions that were never proven to work. SpartanX takes the opposite position: nothing counts until it is exploit-validated. If we cannot prove it, we do not ship it, and we do not publish it. That discipline is the whole point of Labs.

Results that speak for themselves

Independently tested. Every result exploit-validated.

Generalists pass nothing deeply. SpartanX earned the specialist credential across every discipline it tests and solved one of the hardest AI red teaming challenges in the field. Below is the record, measured against public targets that do not pull punches.

AI red teaming benchmark

Son of Anton, solved in full.

The SpartanX agent swarm completed SecureLayer7’s Son of Anton end to end, one of the most difficult AI red teaming challenges in the field: guardrail bypasses, system prompt and secret extraction, and multi-step prompt injection chains, each proven with working evidence.

Guardrail bypassSystem prompt leakSecret extractionPrompt injection chaining
Son of Anton engagement: every finding exploit-validated inside SpartanX.
Specialist credentials

Specialist pentesting mock exams. Passed with merit.

SpartanX autonomously sat and passed The SecOps Group's professional pentesting mock exam series, exploiting the challenges required to qualify across six specialist disciplines.

WebCertified AppSec Pentester (CAPEN)Web Applications
AdvancedCertified AppSec Pentesting eXpert (CAPENX)Advanced AppSec
NetworkCertified Network Pentester (CNPEN)Network
AI / MLCertified AI/ML Pentester (C-AI/MLPEN)AI / ML Systems
AgenticCertified Agentic AI Pentester (C-AGAIPEN)Agentic AI
BinaryCertified Binary Fuzzing & Reversing Professional (CBFRPRO)Binary Exploitation
Continuous benchmarking

Sharpened every day, on the world's hardest public targets.

SpartanX runs every day against Hack The Box, TryHackMe, and live bug bounty programs to measure, benchmark, and fine-tune its agents. Performance is tracked over time, not claimed once.

A slice of the Hack The Box machines SpartanX has rooted, across every difficulty.

Web, API, network, AI / ML, agentic AI, and binary. Depth proven across the layers of the stack, measured against public leaderboards and live programs rather than claimed once.

Hack The Box
TryHackMe
Bugcrowd
HackerOne
The research agenda

What we are building next, in the open.

SpartanX Labs is a growing function. These are the directions we are investing in, published here as they become real, held to the same proof-only standard as everything else.

Forthcoming

Original research and coordinated disclosure

Real vulnerabilities, found by the platform and responsibly disclosed under the SpartanX Labs name.
Forthcoming

The SpartanX Benchmark

A comprehensive, cross-surface, exploit-validated benchmark, published as a public yardstick for the AEM category.
Forthcoming

Rapid response

Validated attack patterns for the latest widely exploited vulnerabilities, so you can test within hours, not at the next quarterly pentest.
Forthcoming

Public proving grounds

Entering bug bounty programs, public benchmarks, and competitions, and building a public record honestly, one proven result at a time.
The rules we hold

The ultimate adversary to systems, never to the people who maintain them.

SpartanX Labs operates on authorized targets only, and discloses what it finds responsibly, giving maintainers time to fix before anything is made public. We hold ourselves to the standard we hold the category to: prove it, disclose it properly, and publish only what is real.

See what a proven adversary finds in your own environment.

The same discipline we hold in the open, pointed at your surface.