Autonomous AI Hacking and the Future of Cybersecurity
<p>AI agents are now hacking computers. They’re getting better at all phases of cyberattacks, faster than most of us expected. They can chain together different aspects of a cyber operation, and hack autonomously, at computer speeds and scale. This is going to change everything.</p>
<p>Over the summer, hackers proved the concept, industry institutionalized it, and criminals operationalized it. In June, AI company XBOW took the <a href="https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ai-xbow-tops-hackerone-us-leaderboad">top spot</a> on HackerOne’s US leaderboard after submitting over 1,000 new vulnerabilities in just a few months. In August, the seven teams competing in DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge ...</p>