ON THE COMING INDUSTRIALISATION OF EXPLOIT GENERATION WITH LLMS

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Agents built on GPT-5.2 and Opus 4.5 autonomously generated over 40 distinct working exploits for a zero-day QuickJS vulnerability across multiple scenarios, solving complex exploitation tasks in under an hour and with modest token costs. The experiment suggests exploit development will soon be limited more by token throughput than human hacker expertise, meaning offensive cybersecurity tasks could scale like industrial processes. This shift implies both unprecedented threat automation and urgency for preparing defense strategies as LLMs move beyond code assistance into full exploit synthesis.