The study compares deterministic static application security testing (SAST) with AI coding agents and AI security harnesses using the VulnBench 2.0 benchmark of 108 vulnerabilities across multiple languages. Nine productized configurations were evaluated, with Snyk Code achieving 82.4% macro recall and Claude Code at 79.3%; together they covered 101 of 108 vulnerabilities, exceeding any single configuration. The results show that AI engines’ effectiveness depends heavily on their harness policies and that AI tools can uncover real vulnerabilities absent from the reference set.
arXiv:2608. 11469v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are rapidly improving in cybersecurity capabilities when the source code is available for analysis, yet much of the software most consequential to cybersecurity, including malware, firmware, and proprietary applications, is available only as binaries.
By Jeremy Spence, Nicholas Assaderaghi, Jinhao Zhu, Nikil Ravi, Raluca Ada Popa, Guannan Wei, Yangruibo Ding, Zhuo Zhang
arXiv:2606. 15762v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We ran 300 repeated vulnerability-finding scans to measure how repeatable agentic large language model (LLM) security review is on the same JavaScript code, prompt, and benchmark harness.
By Liran Tal, Johannes Kloos, Arsenii Rudich, Stephen Thoemmes, Manoj Nair
arXiv:2607. 20759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI coding agents powered by LLMs are increasingly integrated into real-world software development, where they generate, edit, and execute code with autonomous access to local files and tools.
By Ankur Singh, Jinqiu Yang, Tse-Hsun Chen
arXiv:2605. 09504v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present swarm-attack, an open-source adversarial testing framework in which multiple lightweight LLM agents coordinate through shared memory, parallel exploration, and evolutionary optimization.
By Michael A. Riegler, Inga Str\"umke
arXiv:2609.08040v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: The software supply chain has become an increasingly exposed attack surface because of its reliance on intricate yet fragile dependencies. Existing d...
By Jiahao Shi, Edward Tsien, Yifeng Di, Hongjiao Zhang, Yuan Tang, Ronit Dey, Ilona Shishov, Gal Netanel, Zvi Grinberg, Vladimir Belousov, Bat-Zion Rotman, Ilan Pinto, Tianyi Zhang