Vulnerability Research Is Cooked
Thomas Ptacek’s take on the sudden and enormous impact the latest frontier models are having on the field of vulnerability research.
Within the next few months, coding agents will drastically alter both the pract…
On the kernel security list we’ve seen a huge bump of reports. We were between 2 and 3 per week maybe two years ago, then reached probably 10 a week over the last year with the only difference being only AI slop, and now since the beginning of the…
The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a … plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good.
I’m spending hours per day on this now. It’s intense….
Months ago, we were getting what we called ‘AI slop,’ AI-generated security reports that were obviously wrong or low quality. It was kind of funny. It didn’t really worry us.
Something happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real…