A look at OpenAI's Project Daybreak, which lets vetted partners use its top hacking models to find and fix vulnerabilities and helped uncover PHP2Shell RCE bugs
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Offensive-grade LLMs are moving into structured, vetted programs like Project Daybreak—AI red teaming is becoming a formal layer in security posture, not a side experiment. CISOs should start asking vendors how they’re using AI to probe their own surfaces before attackers do.
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