Since February, the Firefox team has been working around the clock using frontier AI models to find and fix latent security vulnerabilities in the browser.
This fluff piece has quite the pie-in-the-sky attitude toward the blue-teaming applications of AI.
Some commentators predict that future AI models will unearth entirely new forms of vulnerabilities that defy our current comprehension, but we don’t think so.
How reassuring.
The defects are finite, and we are entering a world where we can finally find them all.
Could’ve said the same thing when enterprise anti-malware came onto the scene decades ago, but the reality was it was just another vector for the arms race between the red team and the blue team. The author seems to put a lot of stock in the whole “the blue team has access to these AI tools that the red team doesn’t currently have access to” argument, which kinda ignores the fact that that reality is simply not going to last.
I could be wrong, but any article suggesting “zero-days are numbered” doesn’t pass the smell test.
I could be wrong, but any article suggesting “zero-days are numbered” doesn’t pass the smell test.
Yeah, you’re right.
The real story is that it is a bit better at finding bugs. Calling them zero-days and implying there’s some major security implications is just to build hype.
It was able to chain a few of the bugs together to create a RCE exploit in a weakened browser, it’s interesting but don’t go to your fallout shelter just yet.
I agree that 0-days aren’t numbered. There are so many layers on which tech can be exploited that this is a difficult claim to make.
On the other hand, there are two different kind of exploits: clear holes in the logic, a situation or code path not considered by the coder. And the much harder to catch extremely creative ways to make a program do things it was never designed to do.
I have not seen LLMs doing creative things ever, so I doubt it would catch this second category. But sure, catching some logic holes it can be helpful with.
This fluff piece has quite the pie-in-the-sky attitude toward the blue-teaming applications of AI.
How reassuring.
Could’ve said the same thing when enterprise anti-malware came onto the scene decades ago, but the reality was it was just another vector for the arms race between the red team and the blue team. The author seems to put a lot of stock in the whole “the blue team has access to these AI tools that the red team doesn’t currently have access to” argument, which kinda ignores the fact that that reality is simply not going to last.
I could be wrong, but any article suggesting “zero-days are numbered” doesn’t pass the smell test.
Yeah, you’re right.
The real story is that it is a bit better at finding bugs. Calling them zero-days and implying there’s some major security implications is just to build hype.
It was able to chain a few of the bugs together to create a RCE exploit in a weakened browser, it’s interesting but don’t go to your fallout shelter just yet.
I agree that 0-days aren’t numbered. There are so many layers on which tech can be exploited that this is a difficult claim to make.
On the other hand, there are two different kind of exploits: clear holes in the logic, a situation or code path not considered by the coder. And the much harder to catch extremely creative ways to make a program do things it was never designed to do.
I have not seen LLMs doing creative things ever, so I doubt it would catch this second category. But sure, catching some logic holes it can be helpful with.