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Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’ (www.theregister.com)
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[–] hamsterkill 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem isn't that AI is maliciously spamming the mailing list, it's that AI is able to find and report real or potential security vulnerabilities at rates that no human organization can process fast enough. Open source browsers and Linux have been slammed lately with vulnerabilities found by Mythos.

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Aah.. that is indeed a problem since the threats have to be dealt with fast once they are reported since they are now basically public..

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If a public tool can find a CVE in minutes to hours, it doesn't matter if some of the people using signed an NDA.

All it takes is someone how isn't going to report it to also find and exploit it

So the exploitation window doesn't start when it is reported it started at when the tool could have found it

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

llm sure have made world more shitty place..

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean the alternitive, in this case, was security through obscurity, in which these exploits existed, could be reversed for years, and no one else would know .

[–] reksas@sopuli.xyz 1 points 13 hours ago

yes, but with llm they can be uncovered so fast they cant be processed fast enough. And you have to check every report carefully since llm come up with false information all the time, but malicious actors dont have to care about that. Also, now attackers don't have to stockpile the zeroday vulnerabilities, infact they have to use them fast before they are potentially patched.