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XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne

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283 points summarity | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 15:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.526s | source
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keisborg ◴[25 Jun 25 14:54 UTC] No.44378064[source]▶
«XBOW submitted nearly 1,060 vulnerabilities. All findings were fully automated, though our security team reviewed them pre-submission to comply with HackerOne’s policy on automated tools»

That seems a bit unethical. I’ve thought companies specifically deny usage of automated tools. A bit too late ey…?

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8200_unit ◴[25 Jun 25 16:01 UTC] No.44378781[source]▶
They acknowledge that in the article and all submissions are human reviewed before they are submitted.
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keisborg ◴[25 Jun 25 16:48 UTC] No.44379364[source]▶
The policies states it’s not allowed to use automated tools, not to submit report using automated tools alone. Human review does not really change that.
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1. slt2021 ◴[25 Jun 25 18:39 UTC] No.44380544[source]▶
if a human reviewer can repro the bug, there is no difference between automated or human found bug.

bug works and is repro - as a software owner, do you care if human or ai found it?

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2. keisborg ◴[25 Jun 25 18:56 UTC] No.44380724[source]▶
I cannot answer for all the program owners, but I imagine that there are other concerns than reproducibility