{"data":{"id":"20119479-7d4c-4f05-a69a-2803920995c9","title":"How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers","summary":"AI companies like Anthropic and OpenAI have added guardrails (safety restrictions built into AI models to prevent harmful uses) to their models to stop malicious hackers from using them for cyberattacks, but these restrictions are also blocking legitimate offensive cybersecurity researchers (professionals who probe systems to find vulnerabilities before criminals do) from using AI tools effectively in their defensive work. Researchers argue that tasks like asking an AI to exploit a bug or fix vulnerable code are essential for security work, but guardrails prevent the models from helping with these tasks, forcing some researchers to use unrestricted open source AI models instead.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["safety","policy"],"sourceUrl":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/23/how-ai-guardrails-are-impeding-the-work-of-offensive-cybersecurity-researchers/","publishedAt":"2026-07-24T01:00:00.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":["jailbreak"],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedVendors":["Anthropic","OpenAI"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["Anthropic","OpenAI","Mythos","Fable","Claude"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","classifierPromptVersion":"v3","cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-07-24T01:00:00.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"moderate","impactType":["safety"],"aiComponentTargeted":"model","llmSpecific":true,"classifierConfidence":0.85,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}