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Building technology capable of doing so represents a white whale of AI development: a highly difficult-to-achieve technological breakthrough that could deliver massive gains in cybersecurity. <\/p>\n<p>Whether the participants of the Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge will be able to build that tool remains unclear, but this weekend\u2019s competition delivered positive signs that recent innovations in AI might enable such a breakthrough. <\/p>\n<p>In the end, the 90 competitors were able to find 22 unique vulnerabilities in major open-source programs like the Linux kernel, automatically patching 15. One team delivered an even more surprising result, finding a new vulnerability in one of the most popular open-source programs out there. <a href=\"https:\/\/team-atlanta.github.io\">Team Atlanta\u2019s<\/a> project Atlantis found a <a href=\"https:\/\/sqlite.org\/forum\/forumpost\/81670d1056\">previously undiscovered vulnerability<\/a> in the database program SQLite \u2014 one of the most used database libraries in the world.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe thesis of the challenge is that AI can make a fundamental difference. It could be a revolutionary add-on to existing program analysis methods for finding and fixing vulnerabilities,\u201d Perri Adams, the special assistant to the director at DARPA who oversaw the competition, said Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Launched last year at DEF CON, the two-year contest advanced seven teams to the final round, in which they\u2019ll be tasked with creating artificial intelligence-enabled tools that can automatically find vulnerabilities and patch them.<\/p>\n<p>As it stands, there are more bugs in critical systems than there are people who can find and fix them. The Pentagon is betting that AI-enabled tools can find and fix those vulnerabilities and address these resource constraints. <\/p>\n<p>The seven semifinalist teams \u2014 42-b3yond-6ug, all_you_need_is_a_fuzzing_brain, Lacrosse, Shellphish, Team Atlanta, Theori, and Trail of Bits \u2014 won $2 million in prize money. Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI provided the models for the contest. The finalists have until next year to build out their AI systems before the final competition at next year\u2019s DEF CON. The competition will award a total of $29.5 million in prize money. <\/p>\n<p>One of the semifinalists, Trail of Bits, was among the winners of another DARPA contest considered a predecessor \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darpa.mil\/program\/cyber-grand-challenge\">Cyber Grand Challenge<\/a> \u2014 back in 2016 that also chased automatic vulnerability fixes.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s just too much code to look through, and it\u2019s too complex to process in order to find all the vulnerabilities that are spread out,\u201d said Dan Guido, the CEO and founder of Trail of Bits, a cybersecurity firm. \u201cAI is an opportunity that might help assist us in finding and fixing security issues that are now pervasive and increasing in number.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The competition challenges focused on well-known open-source programs like the Linux kernel, the database engine SQLite, and the automation Jenkins in Java, among others. Those programs were loaded with vulnerabilities for the contestants to find.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t like a hackathon. This isn\u2019t a heroic effort by a single person. This is a really complex challenge with lots of moving parts and it takes a ton of effort to put together correctly,\u201d Guido said.<\/p>\n<p>Using AI to solve the vulnerability problem comes with some advantages, Guido said. The teams had to come up with a cyber reasoning system that used existing programs to analyze and find the vulnerabilities in millions of lines of code. <\/p>\n<p>The contest also requires generating a \u201cproof of vulnerability,\u201d which makes sure that the detected vulnerability is real and not a hallucination generated by a probabilistic program.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>There are some other challenges as well, Guido said. Convincing the AI to find vulnerabilities in the first place can be problematic, as there are ethical constraints built into the models given to the teams.<\/p>\n<p>Another challenge is giving the AI program enough autonomy to run without needing human intervention and without causing a <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/crowdstrike-falcon-flaw-microsoft-outage-flights-grounded-windows\/\">global disaster<\/a> through a faulty fix. <\/p>\n<p>Organizers of the challenge hope that the tools generated by competitors might be applied toward open-source software libraries, and technology generated by the competition <a href=\"https:\/\/openssf.org\/press-release\/2023\/08\/09\/openssf-to-support-darpa-on-new-ai-cyber-challenge-aixcc\/\">will be released as open-source projects<\/a> at next year\u2019s DEF CON. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hoping this is going to result in the reduction in vulnerabilities to delivered products. There\u2019s a lot of widely adopted programs and we want those to be extremely secure and hard to break into,\u201d said David Wheeler, the director of open source supply chain security at the Open Source Security Foundation. \u201cEven simply releasing [the code] can be a helpful way to improve these products.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Addressing open-source security has become a major priority of the Biden administration. On Friday, the Office of the National Cyber Director released a report containing summaries of recommendations from the security community about how to improve open-source security. The Department of Homeland Security is also <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/open-source-critical-infrastructure-def-con\/\">opening an office<\/a> that would study vulnerabilities in open-source programs that are found in critical infrastructure, like energy and water.<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"1.5763239875389\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"9\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/darpa-competition-shows-promise-of-using-ai-to-find-and-patch-bugs-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Christian Vasquez\"> <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><h4 class=\"author-card__name\">Written by Christian Vasquez<\/h4>\n<p> Christian covers industrial cybersecurity for CyberScoop News. 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