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LLMs accelerating exploit development

March 29, 2026Zhiyun Qian, thAI Duong, Aaron Grattafiori

Aaron Grattafiori and Brendan Dolan-Gavitt argue LLMs are rapidly making vuln finding easier, while thAI Duong showcases Claude finding RCEs in major editors, suggesting the security industry is unprepared for the pace.

LLMs as super assistants make exploit dev manageable and fun again.
Pixel 10 root exploit (LPE) with an N-day.
Someone fed our Linux kernel exploitation blog post into Claude, and it casually coughed up another vulnerability.
Claude scares me.
LLMs finding vulns has gone from possible to trivial RAPIDLY
the use of generic coding agents is currently the lower bound!!
AI just finished a task that I spent ~2 years failing to accomplish back in 2016.
We asked Claude to find a bug in Vim. It found an RCE.
Zhiyun Qian
thAI Duong
Aaron Grattafiori
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt
AIvulnerability-research

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