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Researchers built a Chrome full-chain exploit with AI in six days

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Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days
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Summary

A team at security firm XBOW chained three previously unknown Google Chrome bugs into an attack that could run code on a Windows computer when a user loaded a webpage, The Hacker News reports. The researchers used AI agents running OpenAI’s publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model; Google confirmed and fixed the bugs, and XBOW received a $250,000 bug bounty, according to the reports.

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  1. The Hacker News

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    The Hacker News reports that XBOW researchers used AI agents running OpenAI’s publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model to chain three previously unknown Chrome bugs into an attack that could run code on a Windows computer when a user loaded a webpage; Google confirmed and fixed the bugs.

  2. The Register

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    The Register reports that researchers built the Chrome exploit in six days and that XBOW earned a $250,000 bug bounty.

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