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30 October 2026

Debate over whether AI models or threat actors are finding software vulnerabilities

First reported

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  • A social media post describes cyber threat actors as businesses that follow defined processes.
  • The author uses that framing to argue that only actors already exploiting vulnerabilities are doing so.
  • The author expects most newly discovered software vulnerabilities are now being found by closed, proprietary AI models.

Our read

Only Interconnects, of the 30 newsletters Newskeryx tracks, covered this debate. It follows a related story we tracked on 2026-10-25 about AI tools finding software flaws and fueling a wave of cyberattacks.

Earlier on this story

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How it was covered

InterconnectsNathan Lambert

Threat actors as business processes, who exploits CVEs, and closed versus open model use