Cyber AI

Attackers test LLM agents for automated reconnaissance

Researchers observed agents chaining search, scanning and exploit lookups with little human input.

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In briefResearchers observed agents chaining search, scanning and exploit lookups with little human input.

The agents enumerated subdomains, fingerprinted services and matched them to public exploits in under an hour.

So far the output has been noisy and easy to detect, but researchers expect quality to improve quickly.

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