AI is finding Apple security flaws faster than Apple can sort through them
Apple has limited the number of open security reports after AI-driven bug hunting overwhelmed its review process. Researchers using AI identified over 50 potential macOS vulnerabilities in three weeks, including a privilege-escalation chain. The company now caps concurrent reports to manage the influx of both theoretical and real flaws.
- ▪Apple capped the number of security reports researchers can keep open at once due to pressure from AI‑generated bug submissions.
- ▪Some of the AI‑generated reports describe hallucinated or purely theoretical risks, while others uncover serious vulnerabilities that require patches.
- ▪Bynario reported finding more than 50 possible macOS flaws in three weeks, including a privilege‑escalation chain that could give an attacker full control of a Mac.
- ▪The privilege‑escalation chain represents a critical security issue that may necessitate an immediate software patch.
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Apple has capped the number of security reports researchers can keep open at once after AI bug hunting put its review process under pressure, according to the Financial Times. Some submissions describe hallucinated or purely theoretical risks. Others uncover vulnerabilities serious enough to require patches. Bynario told the FT that it found more than 50 possible macOS flaws in three weeks, including a privilege-escalation chain that could give an attacker full control of a Mac.
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