A webinar on AI-assisted pentesting exposed a hard operational truth: vulnerability discovery is accelerating, but validation, prioritization, and remediation still move at human speed.
A researcher’s AI-assisted fuzzing run reportedly uncovered serious access-control flaws in Google-facing API surfaces, showing how automation is reshaping both offensive testing and defensive engineering.
A researcher known as Brutecat reportedly earned $500,000 in bug bounty rewards by pairing AI-powered fuzzing with API reconnaissance, a sign that modern disclosure work is becoming more automated and more precise.