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The Frontier AI Vulnerability Burst: Industrializing Autonomous Zero-Day Discovery in Open-Source Software

Executive Summary Frontier AI is fundamentally shifting the dynamics of cybersecurity — accelerating both how vulnerabilities are discovered and how quickly they can be exploited. Our vulnerability research team built an autonomous vulnerability discovery, validation and reporting system that we call Network and Open-Source Vulnerability Analyzer (NOVA), an agentic research system that leverages proprietary AI harnesses powered by multiple leading frontier AI models. Our goal with this research is twofold: (1) contribute to improving the security of the software supply chain; and (2) ensure our customers are protected from vulnerabilities in the AI era. In just two months, NOVA analyzed 3,915 open-source software (OSS) projects and uncovered 14,090 confirmed vulnerabilities, 99.4% of…

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