Antani: LLMs enable attackers to reverse engineer and weaponize software patches faster
Snehal Antani · How AI's Top New Models Transform Cybersecurity (And Where They Don't) — With Snehal Antani · Jul 29, 2026 · at 9:03
Horizon3.ai CEO Snehal Antani discusses the practical cyber threats enabled by modern AI models with Alex Kantrowitz.
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“Now with LLMs you're able to reverse engineer that patch in a fraction of the time. So that part of AI and cyber is a legitimate step up in capability, which is the attacker's ability to quickly revert reverse engineer and weaponize a flaw in a patch, and then mass execute that exploit across all those customers.”
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