HEIF Heist: AI Finds Uncatalogued Image Parsing Flaws, Earns $100K Bounty
Hacktron's 'HEIF Heist' research used AI to uncover silently patched, CVE-less flaws in image parsing libraries like libheif, earning a $100K bounty from Meta for an FB/Instagram RCE chain, an achievement security researchers say redefines the attacker profile.
2026-09-25 ~ 2026-09-26 · 2 related posts
- Episode 1: HEIF Heist: Image Parser Bugs Expose OpenAI, Meta, GitHub to RCE(2026-09-18, 8 posts)
- Episode 2: HEIF Heist: AI Finds Uncatalogued Image Parsing Flaws, Earns $100K Bounty(2026-09-25, 2 posts)
- HEIF Heist: image parser RCE chain nets $100k Meta bounty, hits OpenAI repos and more — evilsocket · 2026-09-25
- HEIF Heist shows AI attackers doing what no bug bounty researcher ever has — moyix · 2026-09-26