AI tools accelerate vulnerability discovery as banks confront autonomous-agent risks
Artificial intelligence is accelerating the discovery and exploitation of software vulnerabilities while creating new security problems for banks and other organizations, according to cybersecurity experts and recent reports.
Research from threat-intelligence firm VulnCheck, cited by Reuters, found that the number of digital flaws discovered doubled from a year earlier with help from AI. Seven cybersecurity professionals told Reuters that models can continuously inspect large codebases, identify bugs and help produce exploits in hours rather than the weeks or months previously required. Recent flaws in PHP prompted some government websites to go offline while operators prepared fixes, and vulnerabilities or breaches were also disclosed involving Node.js, Plex, LiteLLM and Railway.
Banks are separately restricting AI agents that access customer accounts. Mother Jones, citing Axios and the …