一个价值20万美元的真实macOS漏洞未被报告，因为苹果的漏洞赏金邮箱被AI垃圾信息塞满

AI as a cybersecurity risk, but not the way you'd think. Apple is capping the number of bug reports security researchers can submit and enforcing a 30-day cooldown period. A flood of low-quality, AI-generated reports with hallucinated vulnerabilities is clogging the review pipeline, the Financial Times reports . Researchers can request a higher quota. The cap creates real security gaps: Italian startup Bynario used ChatGPT to find a serious macOS vulnerability that could give attackers full control over a machine but couldn't report it because Apple had blocked further submissions. CEO Alfredo Pesoli estimates the flaw's black-market value at $100,000 to $200,000. Apple has since reached out to Bynario. Meanwhile, Apple itself is using AI from Anthropic and OpenAI to hunt for vulnerabilities, and its latest updates included five times as many fixes as usual. That raises the question whether bug bounty programs can survive long-term or whether big tech companies will handle vulnerability discovery on their own. Rafe Pilling of Sophos told the FT that bug bounty programs have gone from finding vulnerabilities to validating them "at machine speed." Ad DEC_D_Incontent-1 Ad Subscribe to THE DECODER for ad-free reading, a weekly AI newsletter, our exclusive "AI Radar" frontier report six times a year, full archive access, and access to our comment section.