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This fluff piece has quite the pie-in-the-sky attitude toward the blue-teaming applications of AI.
How reassuring.
Could've said the same thing when enterprise anti-malware came onto the scene decades ago, but the reality was it was just another vector for the arms race between the red team and the blue team. The author seems to put a lot of stock in the whole "the blue team has access to these AI tools that the red team doesn't currently have access to" argument, which kinda ignores the fact that that reality is simply not going to last.
I could be wrong, but any article suggesting "zero-days are numbered" doesn't pass the smell test.
I agree that 0-days aren't numbered. There are so many layers on which tech can be exploited that this is a difficult claim to make.
On the other hand, there are two different kind of exploits: clear holes in the logic, a situation or code path not considered by the coder. And the much harder to catch extremely creative ways to make a program do things it was never designed to do.
I have not seen LLMs doing creative things ever, so I doubt it would catch this second category. But sure, catching some logic holes it can be helpful with.
I didn't read it like that. I think the point was that the red team had an edge over the blue team (by being able to spend a lot of effort on a single exploit), so when both teams have access to these same tools, it'll be more of an equal fight.
Perhaps I misunderstood the author's intent. Though even if their position is that the red team and blue team will be on a more even playing field when both have access to AI tools, I'm not sure I can agree with that assessment. The asymmetrical nature of offense and defense isn't fundamentally changed by the advent of AI tools. While the current slate of AI tools may be uniquely more useful for finding and patching bugs, I can't imagine a future in which AI tools aren't also being tailored for exploiting and penetrating. The red team isn't just going to sit around and not adapt the available toolset to favor their use cases as well.
Much like the arms race between anti-virus development and virus development, there will be defensive AI development and offensive AI development. Similar to what we've already seen with the arms race between LLMs and software that can detect if something was written by an LLM.
Yeah, you're right.
The real story is that it is a bit better at finding bugs. Calling them zero-days and implying there's some major security implications is just to build hype.
It was able to chain a few of the bugs together to create a RCE exploit in a weakened browser, it's interesting but don't go to your fallout shelter just yet.