Strategic cooperation combines the network test range of HTB with the offensive security research expertise of RemoteThreat to enhance operator capabilities, agent evaluation, and human-machine collaboration.
New York, November 10 (Reuters/ PR Newswire ) – Offensive cyber operations platform RemoteThreat and the leading cyber readiness platform for human-machine collaborative networks Hack The Box ( HTB ) announced today a strategic partnership to focus on advancing operational discipline, human-machine collaboration, and a realistic assessment of offensive AI and autonomous cyber capabilities.
This collaboration will combine HTB's reputation for having the world's most advanced, diverse, and realistic network environments with RemoteThreat's expertise in stealth, advanced persistent threats, offensive AI, and task-perception autonomy. These environments of HTB are continuously subjected to feedback and stress testing by their community of over 5 million network professionals. RemoteThreat is led by former IBM X - Force leaders, who possess specialized experience on the front lines of advanced adversary actions. Both parties will collaborate through product discussions, advisory opinions, real-world content and capability concepts, as well as joint intellectual leadership, with the goal of establishing a closed-loop of expert feedback that focuses on the authenticity, difficulty, and operational relevance of advanced network assessments, covering AI intelligents and the human operators that command these intelligents.
As cybersecurity enters a critical phase, this collaboration has emerged; threats are becoming increasingly autonomous, and offensive actions are increasingly dependent on AI intelligents. In July 2026, OpenAI revealed that models running internal network assessments identified and exploited vulnerabilities within their research environments as well as in the production infrastructure of Hugging Face. This incident brought autonomous network capabilities from theoretical benchmarks to real-world systems, indicating that continuous assessment and highly experienced human supervision must advance in tandem with model capabilities.
This development brings a core challenge to the industry: AI is changing both the offense and defense sides of cyber warfare. Attackers can use AI to accelerate reconnaissance and exploit vulnerabilities, while defenders can also employ the same technologies to identify weaknesses earlier, respond more quickly, and scale their operations more rapidly. This change also redefines the role of security professionals. As routine tasks are increasingly taken over by AI intelligent entities, human operators are required to possess greater judgment in order to command, question, and intervene when automated systems fail.
President Gibb Witham stated: "Cyber threats are evolving at an accelerated pace, outpacing the ability of traditional security measures to keep up. The environments used for continuously building and testing cyber defense capabilities must also evolve rapidly accordingly. By establishing our platform on these emerging operational realities, we ensure that organizations can assess their preparedness based on the actual behavior of real-world threats."
Both parties will explore cooperation opportunities around three pillars:
- True assessment. Explore professional insights into opponent tactics, concealment, and operational decisions to provide references for scenario design, in order to assess the ability of human operators and AI intelligents to pursue their goals under real-world constraints.
- Operational relevance. In addition to achieving the objectives, it is also important to incorporate the perspectives of practitioners regarding detectability, adaptability, operational discipline, and operator control.
- Expert-driven research priorities. Exchange practitioners' views on emerging offensive AI capabilities and the gaps in current assessment methods to help identify research issues in human-computer interaction that can promote industry understanding with concealment as a focus.
RemoteThreat CEO and Co-founder Chris Thompson stated: "Modern offensive actions are no longer just confrontations between individuals. They are defined by concealment, adaptability, and autonomous decision-making. Defenders need to be able to simulate environments with such precise levels of pressure. By collaborating with Hack The Box, we can bring our extensive experience in complex offensive network operations, focusing on concealment and evasion, directly into world-class evaluation environments, to help the industry safely and on a large scale test advanced human and AI capabilities."
About RemoteThreat
RemoteThreat is an offensive cyber operations platform. This platform is created by experienced offensive operators and is aimed at internal red teams and partners in the defense industry, combining deep capabilities, precise control, and human-machine collaboration that operates at mission speed. RemoteThreat — the O/C/O platform. For more information, please visit remotethreat.com.
About Hack The Box
Hack The Box is a leading network readiness platform for human-machine network collaboration, helping organizations to cultivate and measure the capabilities of humans responsible for modern defense as well as AI intelligent entities. The platform offers threat-oriented learning pathways, real-world laboratories, and combat simulations to build and validate offensive, defensive, and AI empowered network capabilities. Hack The Box is trusted by Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, managed security service providers (MSSP), and Frontier Labs, supporting over 800 enterprise clients as well as a global community of more than 5 million cybersecurity professionals. For more information, please visit hackthebox.com.
