Definition
Plain language
An AI-driven system that finds and exploits memory-safety bugs in Windows COM services.
As stated in the literature
An agentic vulnerability discovery pipeline for closed-source Windows COM binaries combining binary exploration tools, COM-introspection tools, and a live debugger to autonomously synthesize working exploits.
Why it matters: It shows AI agents can already do real offensive security work on closed-source binaries, which raises the stakes for defenders relying on opacity as a barrier.
For example, the system can investigate an obscure Windows COM service, find a memory-corruption bug in its handling of a particular method call, and produce a working exploit — without source code.
Heard on the show
“… With that out of the way: the system they built is called slyp, and the thing it does that no prior system has done is go all the way from "I read the binary" to …”Episode 024 — An AI Agent That Found 28 Zero-Days in Windows — And What Made It Work