thegrugq: agentic hacking is breadth-first search for misconfigurations, not exploits
WeldPond · x · 2026-10-13
Responding to Halvar Flake's question of whether we face a "vulnpocalypse or bugocide," renowned security researcher thegrugq argues:
- Memory corruption answers matter only to a niche of infosec — most organizations get hacked via vectors that don't involve memory corruption exploits
- Agentic hacking doesn't look like exploits; it looks like breadth-first searches for every possible mistake and misconfiguration
The take reframes enterprise threat modeling in the AI era: the risk isn't 0-days but agents exhaustively sweeping low-hanging misconfigurations.
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