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Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days
XBOW built an AI-assisted, three-bug Chrome exploit chain in six days that enabled Windows code execution; Google has fixed all three bugs.
Summary
A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI agents running OpenAI's publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model.
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