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Implications, context, and why it matters.

AI now finds software flaws on its own and can sometimes turn them into attacks

• Use of AI in vulnerability testing is growing, including at Indian firms. Claude Mythos Preview found a bug in OpenBSD, an open-source operating system, that had gone unnoticed for 27 years, said Anthropic 1.
• The same model can also turn known vulnerabilities into working exploits on its own. It reached a 72.4% success rate in the same benchmark, up from 14.4% for Opus 4.6, an earlier Anthropic model, said Anthropic 2.
• That speed could shrink the gap between finding a flaw and using it in an attack. Security teams may face more pressure to use AI to keep up 3.

Security work is moving from finding flaws to fixing them

• AI can uncover weaknesses faster, but that solves only part of the problem. The slow step is now remediation, the process of fixing security issues, which still often needs human review plus approval 4.
• Many organizations already miss known problems. Across its incident response cases, 76% of compromises involved one or more of 10 known vulnerabilities that had patches available before exploitation, said Arctic Wolf, a cybersecurity company 5.
• This could widen the gap across the security landscape. Large companies may use AI to spot flaws plus fix them, while smaller businesses may struggle with the volume because they lack staff or budget 4.