Ethical hackers are using artificial intelligence tools to find bugs in computer code and claim rewards worth thousands of dollars. However, others are using the same AI tools to generate realistic but nonsensical bug reports, making it hard to know which reports to trust. Bug bounty schemes offer financial rewards for people who can find flaws in software.

Microsoft researchers have been working on deep learning model that was trained to find software bugs without any real-world bugs to learn from. While there are dozens of tools available for static analysis of code in various languages to find security flaws, researchers have been exploring techniques that use machine learning to improve the ability to both detect flaws and fix them. That's because finding and fixing bugs in code can be hard and costly, even when using AI to find them. Every remote worker should consider a virtual private network to stay safe online. Researchers Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK have detailed their work on BugLab, a Python implementation of "an approach for self-supervised learning of bug detection and repair".