Automating Bug Bounty with GPT Pro: Wins First Bounty End-to-End
jarrodwatts · x · 2026-08-14
The author updated their progress on using AI for vulnerability discovery, successfully winning their first bug bounty.
- Automated Pipeline: Built a fully automated workflow using GPT Pro combined with specific tools, achieving an end-to-end process from finding potential candidates to building and validating exploit PoCs.
- AI Security Capabilities: The author noted that current SOTA models, given the right tools and enough time, are already capable of finding any exploits in a given protocol, especially open-source ones like most crypto projects.
- Safety Guardrails: Mentioned that Codex detected the cybersecurity nature of the conversations and required additional verification.
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