Google Bug Bounty – The $5k Error Page
So I was thinking recently... with Google (amongst others, of course) themselves pushing towards AI applications, it seems to me that many of these less-advanced* bounty hunts might perhaps be able to be automated with a fuzzer+scraper+AI based approach. The fact that bug bounties are still being awarded does suggest that this is not that trivial, however, but might still be fun to explore nonetheless. I.e. can one train an agent that goes off and tries this sort of things autonomously? Might be fun to translate the HTTP intrusion domain into a deep learning architecture.<p>Similar things are being applied on the "defensive" side of things already anyway (i.e. Iranian, Turkish, Chinese firewall systems using machine learning to identify and block new patterns), so why not apply this on the offensive side.<p>*: Not to demean the author in any way; I understand that putting the time in to explore these things is easier said than done in hindsight.