LLM bug hunt finds full-stack attack chain to brick a hardware device
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-09-16
Peter Szilagyi says that after using LLMs all year, he finally sent them out bug-hunting in his codebase — and they traced a way to brick an Ark, going from the mobile app through the cloud, the plugged-in laptop, firmware, the USB stack, all the way to the kernel. Security researcher Matthew Green's repost highlights how capable LLM agents have become at discovering serious cross-stack security flaws.
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