XBOW's AI Agent Autonomously Finds Linux Kernel Privilege-Escalation 0-Day

Security firm XBOW says its AI agent autonomously discovered a Linux kernel 0-day (CVE-2026-72018) in areas largely overlooked by human researchers and built a working local privilege escalation exploit.

2026-09-30 ~ 2026-10-01 · 2 related posts

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