GLM-5.3 is here with advanced cyber capabilities — and reportedly already found a 'serious vulnerability' in Cursor
THE SO WHAT
Frontier-grade cyber capability is leaking into largely open models — if GLM-5.3 can autonomously surface “serious” vulns in popular tools, the offense–defense gap compresses for everyone at once. Treat model selection as a security decision now: you need policies for who can run what models against your own code and infra.
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