ISGroup Publishes Large-Scale Study Showing AI Can Identify Real Software Vulnerabilities
1.24 billion tokens. 12,000 model requests. 29 confirmed vulnerabilities in a platform hardened by a decade of independent audits. One of the most extensive public studies to date on LLM-driven vulnerability research.
Italy, 1st Aug 2026 – What happens when you point a frontier AI model at real-world, battle-tested software and ask it to think like an attacker? ISGroup, the Italian offensive-security firm with two decades of experience in penetration testing and security research, set out to answer that question – and has now published the results in “What Can an Attacker Find With an LLM?”, a large-scale study that places Italy at the forefront of global research on AI-assisted security analysis.
The target was no soft one. ISGroup chose GlobaLeaks, the open-source whistleblowing platfor...
