Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years (Chris Rohlf/Anthropic)
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Chris Rohlf / Anthropic : Claude flagged 493 security issues across 25 open-source projects, covering 5M+ lines of C, C++, Java, PHP, and Python code; one went unnoticed for 21 years — Over the past year, we've published lots of data that shows that frontier AI models are more than capable of discovering and exploiting security vulnerabilities.
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| Publication time | Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:15:01 -0400 |
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