Vals AI launches SRE-Bench, a cybersecurity benchmark testing LLMs on binary reverse engineering
dyn___ · x · 2026-09-04
Security eval firm Vals AI released SRE-Bench, a new cybersecurity benchmark testing whether models can reverse engineer binaries and understand their behavior — a capability gap left uncovered by source-code-based security evals.
The motivation: the software that matters most for security — proprietary enterprise software, security appliances, firmware, and deliberately obfuscated malware — exists only as binaries. A quoted post notes model Astra "saturates our reverse engineering bench".
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