ai hacking

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Lines of code and terminal windows on a dark computer screen

A hacker let AI run his cyberattacks solo. It barely worked — and that's the scary part

A DeepSeek-powered agent tried to hack 460+ systems on its own, including a Windows VPN bug rated CVSS 9.8 — and got shut out everywhere authentication actually worked.

Priya Nair · Aug 23 · 7 min

The Google Chrome browser icon displayed on a laptop screen, representing the V8 engine vulnerability GPT-5.6-Cyber discovered

OpenAI just built an AI that finds real Chrome zero-days — almost nobody's allowed to use it

GPT-5.6-Cyber completes 95% of advanced exploit-development tasks, versus 1.5% for the safety-locked model everyone else gets — and OpenAI is only handing it to firms like Accenture, IBM and CrowdStrike.

Lena Fischer · Aug 13 · 7 min