AI Hackers: Past Present and Future of Autonomously Finding (and Exploiting) Vulnerabilities

Vlad Ionescu

In this talk we take a brief journey through time to understand how “AIs” have found security bugs from the beginning, up to today, and what the near future holds for attackers and responders alike. You will leave with an understanding of how traditional ML struggled to find impactful bugs, how you can use LLMs today to automate major parts of vulnerability research, and why all of this matters.