Anthropic just pointed Claude at a job most people think is only for humans: quietly deciding which doors a piece of software needs to keep unlocked.
AspireAI community · anthropic.com
Anthropic just pointed Claude at a job most people think is only for humans: quietly deciding which doors a piece of software needs to keep unlocked.
Attack surface is the set of code that an outside person can actually reach. Shrink that set and any unknown bug sitting in it becomes harder to exploit. Anthropic's Frontier Red Team ran Claude across 25 open-source projects in several languages and reported 493 issues — including 93 code paths reachable before login that shouldn't have been, and 61 configuration combinations that silently weakened a security setting an admin had turned on.
They call this a preview, and they're clear it finds needless reachability, not live breaches.
The largest proportional reduction was in OpenSSH.
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