Assail is secretly launching Ares, autonomous AI agents for continuous penetration testing across APIs, mobile devices and web infrastructures

Assail is secretly launching Ares, autonomous AI agents for continuous penetration testing across APIs, mobile devices and web infrastructures

By PR Newswire
Publication Date: 2026-01-13 16:00:00

The company raises $250,000 in pre-seed led by Squared Circle Ventures, secures $100,000 in AWS credits, joins NVIDIA Inception, and drives 264 early access registrations following keynote debut at ISC2 Security Congress

LAS VEGAS, January 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Assail, Inc., a cybersecurity company developing autonomous AI agents for API-first offensive security testing, today announced that it is launching from obscurity with Ares, an agent-offensive AI platform for continuous machine-speed penetration testing across APIs, with coverage that extends to web and mobile applications. Ares is designed to shorten validated vulnerability detection and remediation windows from weeks to minutes, helping organizations reduce risk before attackers exploit exposed APIs and modern application infrastructure.

The Ares operations dashboard (version 1.0 “Dagger”) shows the concurrent API penetration tests. The live topology is displayed on a rotating 3D globe, while the Ares Mind sidebar…