FOINIK

AI Security Testing for Space Systems

The only sustainable way to secure continuously evolving AI is with continuously evolving testing. Foinik uses genetic algorithms to evolve adversarial attacks against AI systems in satellites, ground stations, and space infrastructure.

Follow Development How It Works

Evolution in Action

$ foinik test --target satellite-api.space.corp --mode evolutionary

[*] Initializing Variant Evolution Engine v1.0
[+] Target: Autonomous Satellite Control API
[*] Seeding initial population: 200 attack variants
[+] Generation 1: Best fitness 71% (baseline)

[*] Evolving attack population...
[+] Generation 5: Best fitness 83% (+12%)
[+] Generation 10: Best fitness 91% (+20%)

[!] DISCOVERY: Command injection via AI orbit planner
[!] CRITICAL: Unauthorized maneuver commands accepted
[!] Safety constraints bypassed through prompt confusion

[+] Evolution complete: 10 generations in 47 seconds
[*] Successful attacks discovered: 3 CRITICAL, 5 HIGH, 8 MEDIUM
# This attack pattern was never programmed. Evolution discovered it.

Research Focus Areas

Autonomous Satellite Testing

Test AI decision-making in orbit planners, collision avoidance, and mission control systems for vulnerabilities before deployment.

Ground Station Security

Assess AI-powered ground station operations, telemetry analysis, and command validation systems against adversarial attacks.

Inter-Satellite Links

Test AI communication protocols and autonomous routing decisions in satellite constellations for security weaknesses.

Genetic Algorithm Engine

Attacks evolve like biological organisms—crossbreeding successful techniques and mutating to discover zero-day vulnerabilities.

Space Protocol Support

Native support for CCSDS, TT&C, and satellite-specific APIs. Tests AI systems in their actual operational context.

Evolution Visualization

Watch attack fitness improve across generations. See exactly how each vulnerability was discovered through evolution.

The Evolution Cycle

SEED

Plant 200 Seeds

Initialize with known attack patterns from OWASP, research, and previous tests

SELECT

Natural Selection

Elite 10% survive unchanged. Top 40% breed. Bottom 50% eliminated

BREED

Crossbreeding

Successful attacks exchange techniques to create more sophisticated variants

MUTATE

Random Mutations

30% get DNA changes—synonyms, unicode, authority tokens, context shifts

EVOLVE

Repeat 10x

Each generation gets 20-30% better. Novel attacks emerge that were never programmed

Current Research Status

200
Attack Variants per Test
10
Evolution Generations
28%
Average Fitness Improvement
~1min
Full Evolution Cycle

Revolutionizing AI Red Teaming

Foinik is a research project exploring how evolutionary algorithms can discover vulnerabilities that traditional testing methods miss. Follow the development as we push the boundaries of AI security testing for space systems.