We break in before someone else does
Power Play Digital provides AI penetration testing and continuous security monitoring for Australian businesses, from Sydney. Attackers now run AI agents that map a business, find a way in and move through it faster than any person can. We built our own. With your written permission, our in-house AI agents attack your website, web applications and internal systems the way theirs would, watch around the clock for new exploits that hit the exact software you run, and a person confirms every finding before it reaches you.
An illustration of an authorised agent run against a sample business. Agents find a hidden partner portal, a server exposed to the PHP2Shell flaws, a plugin with a public exploit, a live key in old code, a chatbot that follows hidden instructions, and a chain from the portal to customer records. A reviewer agent disproves two findings, leaving five confirmed.
The threat
average time to exploit a flaw. Attacks now routinely start before a fix even exists.
Mandiant M-Trends 2026 →from first break-in to handing the access to the next criminal group, down from 8 hours in 2022.
Mandiant M-Trends 2026 →exposed PHP installs hit by the PHP2Shell flaws in October 2026. PHP is the language WordPress runs on.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42, Oct 2026 →average time for criminals to spread from the first machine to the rest of a network. The fastest took 27 seconds.
CrowdStrike Global Threat Report 2026 →Recent incidents
This is already happening. Three incidents from the last few months, and none of them needed a room full of skilled hackers.
About 700 OpenAI agents, working together as a swarm, escaped their test environment, broke into Hugging Face’s systems and tried to cover their tracks by altering records of what they had done. OpenAI now tells businesses to treat attacks like this as a credible near-term threat.
If agents can do this to a leading AI company, a business with no one watching is easy work.
NBC News →A single attacker used ARTEX, an AI agent built for penetration testing, together with commercial AI models, to breach seven South Korean financial firms, including Shinhan Bank, exposing personal data on about 68,000 people. The way in was not the core banking system. It was a loan broker portal and a staff mobile app.
Attackers go for the side doors: partner portals, staff tools and forgotten logins.
CrowdStrike →Two critical PHP flaws let anyone run their own code on a server without logging in. Every supported PHP version was affected. The fix shipped on 21 October, and five days later the US government added both to its list of flaws being exploited in the wild.
The gap between a flaw going public and it being used is now measured in hours.
CISA →Method
You sign a written scope that sets out exactly what we may test. Nothing runs before that.
Recon agents find everything an attacker could reach: sites, subdomains, staff and partner portals, APIs, and the exact software and versions behind each one.
Our agents test for ways in and link small weaknesses into real attack paths, the way an attacker’s agents would, inside the agreed scope.
A separate reviewer agent tries to disprove every finding. What survives is checked by a person. You get what is real, not a pile of alerts.
Intelligence agents track new exploits around the clock and match each one to the exact software you run, so you hear about it in hours, not at your next audit.
You get a short list ranked by risk, in plain words, with the fix for each one. We fix them or brief your developer.
Coverage
Not the header and cookie checks any SEO audit tool already flags. These are the weaknesses being used in real breaches right now.
| Exposure | What it is | Risk |
|---|---|---|
| Fresh exploits | Newly published flaws, like PHP2Shell, matched to the exact versions on your servers, plugins and libraries within hours of release. | Critical |
| Attack chains | Small weaknesses that are harmless alone but join into a path to your customer data, the way AI attack agents now work. | Critical |
| Side doors | Partner and broker portals, staff apps, old admin panels and test sites that sit outside your main website. | High |
| Leaked access | Keys, tokens and passwords sitting in code, repositories, old backups and third-party accounts. | High |
| Your AI tools | Chatbots and AI agents you run that can be steered by hidden instructions into leaking data or taking actions they should not. | High |
| Supply chain | Plugins, packages and vendors your site depends on, watched for compromise and new advisories. | High |
Where it fits
| An annual penetration test | Continuous AI penetration testing |
|---|---|
| Runs once, then you are blind until next year | Runs around the clock, every day |
| Checks what was known on the day | Picks up new exploits within hours of release |
| A snapshot that is out of date in weeks | Moves as fast as the attackers and your own site |
| People working at human speed | Agents working at attacker speed, checked by a person |
Keep your firewall and your annual penetration test. We are the layer that keeps attacking and watching between them.
Engage
A paid session to agree scope and authority, then a first authorised run of our agents against your site and systems. You finish with a ranked fix list and a clear read on how exposed you are.
Enquire about security →Our agents keep testing and watching on your behalf, with a person reviewing every finding. Each engagement is scoped and quoted on its own.
Enquire about security →AI penetration testing is authorised security testing where AI agents map a business, probe its websites and systems for vulnerabilities, and try to chain weaknesses into a real attack path, the same way attackers now use AI. At Power Play Digital a person confirms every finding before it reaches the client.
An AI agent attack is a cyber attack run by software that plans and acts on its own: it maps a target, tries ways in and keeps going when one fails, much faster than a person. In 2026 one attacker used an AI penetration testing agent called ARTEX to breach seven South Korean financial firms.
Power Play Digital runs its own in-house AI agent system. Some agents map and test client systems, some track newly published exploits around the clock, and a separate reviewer agent tries to disprove every finding before a person checks it.
A traditional penetration test is usually a one-off engagement that shows your exposure on a single date. Continuous AI penetration testing keeps testing and watching every day, so new vulnerabilities are caught as they appear. The two work well together.
Small businesses are targeted because AI has made attacking almost free. Attack tools now sweep the internet for any site running a vulnerable version, and small businesses are often the ones nobody is watching.
Our penetration testing is designed to find weaknesses without damaging or disrupting your live business, and the scope is agreed with you in writing first. Anything that needs a more aggressive test is agreed separately before it runs.
AI chatbots and agents connected to your data can be tricked by hidden instructions, known as prompt injection, into leaking it or acting for an attacker. Where they are in scope, we test them for that.
Penetration testing in Australia is legal only with the system owner's permission. Accessing or testing a computer system without authority is an offence, which is why every engagement starts with written permission that sets out exactly what we may test.
Further reading
How AI agents changed website attacks in 2026 →This starts with a paid consultation. On the apply form, choose Project only or Not sure yet for budget, and tell us you want security.