After helping expand the modern software attack surface with the rise of AI services prone to data poisoning and prompt injection, OpenAI has thrown a bone to cyber defenders.

The maker of ChatGPT on Thursday announced that it is privately testing Aardvark, an agentic security system based on GPT‑5.

"Aardvark represents a breakthrough in AI and security research: an autonomous agent that can help developers and security teams discover and fix security vulnerabilities at scale," the company said in its post . "Aardvark is now available in private beta to validate and refine its capabilities in the field."

A software agent is an AI model with access to other software tools that tries to address a particular task. That potentially toxic relationship has helped spawn dozens of AI security s

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