🎩 Top 5 Security and AI Reads - Week #18

AI red teaming automation wins, reproducible vulnerability containers, attacker control-based bug prioritisation, benchmark gaming exposed, and new binary vuln dataset.

Welcome to the eighteenth (!!) instalment of the Stats and Bytes Top 5 Security and AI Reads weekly newsletter. We're kicking off with a fascinating exploration of automation's advantages in AI red teaming, revealing how a combination of automated tools and human expertise significantly boosts success rates in identifying vulnerabilities. Next, we examine ARVO, an impressive atlas of reproducible vulnerabilities for open-source software that provides ready-to-use Docker containers for pre-patched and post-patched code testing. We then delve into groundbreaking research on attacker control and bug prioritisation that introduces the innovative "Shrink and Split" approach to quantitatively assess vulnerability severity based on attacker input control. Following that, we explore "The Leaderboard Illusion" which exposes how benchmark access can lead to unreliable performance measures and suggests concrete improvements for fairer evaluation systems. We wrap up with BinPool, a valuable new d…