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Cheap to Hypothesize, Costly to Verify: The Defense Surface of Agentic Vulnerability Discovery
Autonomous LLM agents turn vulnerability discovery into a repository-scale search: they generate many vulnerability hypotheses but can verify only a subset under a finite budget. We show that autonomous vulnerability discovery exhibits a hypothesis-verification asymmetry, where verifying a...
The Exploit Pipeline Just Went Autonomous.
& In February, I wrote about the breach zone — the gap between CVE disclosure and scanner signature. In April, I wrote that the breach zone became permanent when NIST stopped enriching the majority of CVEs. Both posts assumed the same ceiling: humans, working at human speed, are the bottleneck fo...
Mythos: An AI tool too powerful for public release
Anthropic’s most capable model to date, Claude Mythos Preview aka Mythos, has been described as a “step change” in AI performance, especially on cybersecurity tasks. Anthropic tried to keep Mythos a secret until a few weeks ago, when a data leak revealed the existence of what the company said was...