Security researchers have long assumed that the biggest challenge in autonomous vulnerability discovery is finding bugs in the first place. A paper published on September 28, 2026, by researcher Dongdong She flips that assumption on its head: the real bottleneck isn’t spotting a possible flaw, it’s...
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A new study overturns a widespread conviction among those who work on the autonomous discovery of vulnerabilities: the biggest problem is not finding a possible bug, but proving it to be real. It is supported by researcher Dongdong She in a paper published on September 28, 2026. The work, titled "Cheap to Hypothesize, Costly to Verify: The Defense [...]