AI Bug Hunter Sets Milestone By Claiming Top Spot on HackerOne’s Leaderboard

XBOW, an autonomous AI, has overtaken human hackers on HackerOne’s US leaderboard after submitting more than 1,000 vulnerability reports in a few months.

An autonomous AI system called XBOW has outperformed human researchers to become the top-ranked security tester in the US on HackerOne, a bug bounty platform used by major organizations to strengthen their cybersecurity.

This is a milestone in the use of AI for ethical security research, not simply because it performed well, but because it’s the first documented instance of an autonomous system outperforming human experts on a large scale in a real-world environment.

XBOW was developed to function as an independent penetration tester, capable of identifying, validating, and reporting vulnerabilities in real-world systems. In a span of a few months, XBOW submitted over 1,000 vulnerability reports, leapfrogging thousands of human ethical hackers to land at the top of the US leaderboard.

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