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fromTheregister
1 week agoMicrosoft Azure CTO says Claude found vulns in Apple II code
AI can decompile machine code and discover vulnerabilities in legacy systems, creating security risks for billions of deployed microcontrollers worldwide.
Before its debut, Anthropic's frontier red team tested Opus 4.6 in a sandboxed environment to see how well it could find bugs in open-source code. The team gave the Claude model everything it needed to do the job - access to Python and vulnerability analysis tools, including classic debuggers and fuzzers - but no specific instructions or specialized knowledge. Claude found more than 500 previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities in open-source code using just its "out-of-the-box" capabilities,