Matt Green: infosec would gleefully combine AI 0day-finders into self-replicating worms
matthew_d_green · x · 2026-10-14
- Cryptographer Matthew Green offers a counterfactual: if AI didn't exist and the infosec community were handed "a magic box that finds 0days" plus "a box that autonomously scans networks for misconfigurations," they'd rush to glue them into a self-replicating worm.
- The point: security practitioners clearly grasp the dual-use risk of combining autonomous vulnerability discovery with network scanning AI — a combination threat worth taking seriously.
Related event: Cryptographer warns infosec underestimates AI worm threats(3 posts)→
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