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No Priors · Friday, October 23, 2026

Cloudflare CTO Says High School Hackers Are Using AI Agents to Find Vulnerabilities

Dane Knecht discusses how the attacker landscape has evolved, stating that recent major vulnerabilities are not just from nation-state actors but also from high school students dubbed 'agent kitties' who point AI agents at targets and leverage bug bounties.

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“Well, I actually think that some of these large vulnerabilities that have come out more recently, actually, I haven't been nation states. They've been, you know, high school kids even that are... We're going to call them agent kitties now.”
Dane Knecht
“There's also financial reward for them. There's buck bounties that they get paid out sizable amounts.”
Dane Knecht
Heard on No Priors — “Democratizing Security for the Agentic Web with Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht”, published Friday, October 23, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Cloudflare CTO Says High School Hackers Are Using AI Agents to Find Vulnerabilities — Heardvine