An artificial intelligence (AI) agent outperformed most human hackers after it spent 16 hours crawling a university’s site for vulnerabilities, a new study has found.
The study comes as hackers from Russia, North Korea, Iran and Chinese-backed groups are using large language models (LLMs) to refine cyberattacks, according to Microsoft and OpenAI this year. Militant groups such as pro-Islamic State groups are also experimenting with AI to mount attacks.
