Agent swarms are being unleashed on codebases for bug hunting as daily CVE counts spike
basedjensen · x · 2026-10-22
A viral thread on a wave of security disclosures — 2 CVEs in PHP, 10 in Node.js, 5 in NGINX, 1 in Go, 12 in GitLab in a single day, plus a CA certificate compromise — prompted speculation that AI-powered hacking is behind it. @basedjensen responds that it's largely "bug hunting": people are letting agent swarms loose on codebases to autonomously uncover vulnerabilities, sharply accelerating discovery rates.
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