{"id":1136,"date":"2026-02-09T13:04:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/llms-are-getting-a-lot-better-and-faster-at-finding-and-exploiting-zero-days\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T13:04:16","slug":"llms-are-getting-a-lot-better-and-faster-at-finding-and-exploiting-zero-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ibvl.in\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/llms-are-getting-a-lot-better-and-faster-at-finding-and-exploiting-zero-days\/","title":{"rendered":"LLMs are Getting a Lot Better and Faster at Finding and Exploiting Zero-Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>This is <a href=\"https:\/\/red.anthropic.com\/2026\/zero-days\/\">amazing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Opus 4.6 is notably better at finding high-severity vulnerabilities than previous models and a sign of how quickly things are moving. Security teams have been automating vulnerability discovery for years, investing heavily in fuzzing infrastructure and custom harnesses to find bugs at scale. But what stood out in early testing is how quickly Opus 4.6 found vulnerabilities out of the box without task-specific tooling, custom scaffolding, or specialized prompting. Even more interesting is how it found them. Fuzzers work by throwing massive amounts of random inputs at code to see what breaks. Opus 4.6 reads and reasons about code the way a human researcher would\u00ad\u2014looking at past fixes to find similar bugs that weren\u2019t addressed, spotting patterns that tend to cause problems, or understanding a piece of logic well enough to know exactly what input would break it. When we pointed Opus 4.6 at some of the most well-tested codebases (projects that have had fuzzers running against them for years, <a href=\"https:\/\/google.github.io\/oss-fuzz\/research\/llms\/target_generation\/\">accumulating millions of hours of CPU time<\/a>), Opus 4.6 found high-severity vulnerabilities, some that had gone undetected for decades.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The details of how Claude Opus 4.6 found these zero-days is the interesting part\u2014read the whole blog post.<\/p>\n<p>News <a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/anthropic-launches-new-model-that-spots-zero-days-makes-wall-street-traders-lose-their-minds-2000718648\">article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is amazing: Opus 4.6 is notably better at finding high-severity vulnerabilities than previous models and a sign of how quickly things are moving. 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