RemoteThreat and Hack The Box Partner to Advance Realistic Evaluation for Human-AI Cyber Operations

Strategic collaboration combines HTB's cyber ranges with RemoteThreat's offensive security research expertise to strengthen operator competence, agent evaluation, and human-AI teaming.

NEW YORK, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- RemoteThreat, the Offensive Cyber Operations platform, and Hack The Box (HTB), the leading cyber readiness platform for the human-AI cyber workforce, today announced a strategic partnership focused on advancing operational discipline, human-AI teaming, and the realistic evaluation of offensive AI and autonomous cyber capabilities.

The partnership brings together HTB's reputation for the world's most advanced, diverse, and realistic cyber environments, continually informed and pressure-tested by its community of over 5 million cyber practitioners with RemoteThreat's specialist expertise in stealth, advanced persistent threat behaviors, offensive AI, and mission-aware autonomy. Led by former IBM X-Force leaders, RemoteThreat brings focused expertise at the forefront of advanced adversary operations. The companies will collaborate through product dialogue, advisory input, realistic content and capability concepts, and shared thought leadership, with the goal to create an expert feedback loop around the realism, difficulty, and operational relevance of advanced cyber evaluation, encompassing both AI agents and the people directing them.

The collaboration comes as cybersecurity is reaching a pivotal moment; threats are becoming increasingly autonomous and offensive operations increasingly rely on AI agents. In July 2026, OpenAI disclosed that models running an internal cyber evaluation identified and chained vulnerabilities across its research environment and Hugging Face's production infrastructure. The incident moved autonomous cyber capability from benchmark theory into real-world systems, demonstrating why continuous evaluation and highly experienced human oversight must advance alongside model capability.

This dynamic creates a central challenge for the industry: AI is changing both sides of the cyber equation. Attackers can use AI to accelerate reconnaissance and exploitation, while defenders can apply the same technology to identify weaknesses earlier, respond faster, and operate at scale. This shift also redefines the role of security professionals. As routine execution is delegated to AI agents, human operators increasingly need the judgment to direct, challenge, and intervene when automated systems fail.

"AI is accelerating cyber threats faster than traditional security capability cycles can keep up," said Gibb Witham, President of Hack The Box. "The environments used to continuously build and drill cyber readiness must evolve just as fast. By grounding our platforms in these emerging operational realities, we ensure organizations can evaluate their readiness against how real-world threats are actually behaving."

The companies will explore partnership opportunities across three pillars:

• Realistic evaluations. Explore how specialist insights into adversary tradecraft, stealth and operational decision-making can inform scenarios that assess how human operators and AI agents pursue objectives under realistic constraints.
• Operational relevance. Contribute practitioner perspectives on objective completion alongside detectability, adaptability, operational discipline and operator control.
• Expert-informed research priorities. Exchange practitioner perspectives on emerging offensive AI capabilities and gaps in current evaluation approaches, helping identify research questions that can advance industry understanding of stealth-focused human–AI operations.

"Modern offensive operations are no longer just human-versus-human. They are defined by stealth, adaptation, and autonomous decision-making," said Chris Thompson, CEO and Co-Founder of RemoteThreat. "Defenders need environments that simulate this exact level of pressure. Partnering with Hack The Box allows us to bring our deep experience of sophisticated offensive cyber operations, focused on stealth and evasion, directly into world-class evaluation environments, helping the industry test advanced human and AI capabilities safely and at scale."

About RemoteThreat

RemoteThreat is the offensive cyber operations platform. Built by experienced offensive operators for internal red teams and defense industry partners, it combines deep capability, precise control, and human-machine operation at mission speed. RemoteThreat - The O/C/O Platform. Learn more at remotethreat.com.

About Hack The Box

Hack The Box is the leading cyber readiness platform for the human-AI cyber workforce, helping organizations develop and measure the capabilities of the people and AI agents responsible for modern defense. The platform delivers threat-informed learning paths, real-world labs and live-fire simulations that build and validate offensive, defensive and AI-enabled cyber capabilities. Trusted by the Fortune 500, government agencies, managed security service providers (MSSPs) and Frontier Labs, Hack The Box supports more than 800 enterprise customers and a global community of over 5 million cybersecurity professionals. 

For more information, visit hackthebox.com 

SOURCE RemoteThreat