AI exploit agent's API bill revealed: ~$40K per attack chain, slides two months apart
moyix · x · 2026-10-29
Security researcher natashenka shared two conference slides just two months apart, highlighting how fast AI-driven security automation is moving:
- Enterprise pressure: leadership is pushing for agents and automations, frontier applications are already installed, yet CISOs still own responsibility for IP and PII integrity.
- API cost breakdown: an automated vulnerability search + exploit chain cost $40K total — vulnerability search $21.98K (55%, incl. initial sandbox search $6.95K, Crashpad search $5.25K, Renderer RCE $3.86K, V8 escapes $3.87K), exploit engineering $9.32K (23%), orchestration & backup routes $8.79K (22%).
The side-by-side underscores that AI-powered offensive/defensive automation is being quantified in both cost and responsibility terms.
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