An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.

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Summary by Cyber Security News14 Oct 2026, 13:00 CET

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The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer's production website, on its own.

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