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LLM Agents can Autonomously Hack Websites

Showed GPT-4-based agents autonomously performing web attacks, the first widely cited evidence of agentic offensive cyber capability.

offensive cyberagentsweb hacking

Research question

Can LLM agents exploit web vulnerabilities without human guidance or prior knowledge of them?

Key findings

GPT-4 agents exploited 11 of 15 vulnerabilities including blind SQL injection; open models failed - Cost per exploit was far below a human tester

Sources

arxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06664

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