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XBOW AI Pentester Matches Human Experts, Achieves 85% Success in 28 Minutes

Aug 5, 2024, 02:25 PM

The team behind GitHub Copilot has launched XBOW, an AI-powered penetration tester that rivals human experts. XBOW, led by Oege de Moor, has demonstrated remarkable capabilities by matching the performance of a 20-year veteran pentester in just 28 minutes, achieving 85% success in identifying vulnerabilities. The AI tool scored an unprecedented 75% on renowned web pentesting benchmarks from PentesterLab and PortSwigger. In a head-to-head competition, XBOW solved 88 out of 104 challenges, matching the performance of human experts given 40 hours. XBOW's performance has shown that AI can significantly accelerate cybersecurity tasks.