{"id":281501,"date":"2026-06-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/trust-in-automated-ai-vulnerability-scanning-collapses-to-9\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:45:13","slug":"trust-in-automated-ai-vulnerability-scanning-collapses-to-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/25\/trust-in-automated-ai-vulnerability-scanning-collapses-to-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust in Automated AI Vulnerability Scanning Collapses to 9%"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trust in Automated AI Vulnerability Scanning Collapses to 9%<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.infosecurity-magazine.com\/news\/trust-ai-vulnerability-scanning\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-25 08:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.infosecurity-magazine.com<\/a><\/p>\n

A large number of false negatives has significantly eroded confidence in automated AI testing for vulnerabilities, a new study from Cobalt has found.<\/p>\n

The Cobalt State of Pentesting Report 2026 is based on two comparative surveys in 2025 and 2026 of around 450 cybersecurity professionals.<\/p>\n

It found that the percentage of organizations relying entirely on AI automation for testing sank from 29% to 9% over the period, with nearly half (47%) of respondents now preferring a hybrid testing model.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Over three-quarters (78%) said fully automated scanning tools missed critical vulnerabilities.<\/p>\n

Read more on pen testing: AWS Unveils ‘Continuum,’ an AI-Powered Vulnerability Management Platform<\/p>\n

The share of organizations now preferring a hybrid model, where humans support AI testing, surged\u00a022 percentage points in a year. The percentage of organizations using automation for low-risk environments also rose 22 points to 47%.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the industry is rightfully excited about the potential of Mythos-class tools, unguided algorithms are inherently prone to returning even more false positives and costly false negatives than the automated scanners we have today,\u201d said Andrew Obadiaru, CISO of\u00a0Cobalt.<\/p>\n

The AI Attack Surface Expands<\/strong><\/h2>\n

A big reason for the decline in trust for AI automation is the complexity of the AI attack surface that these scanners are testing, noted the report.<\/p>\n

Nearly one-in-three findings from an AI pentest is rated high risk \u2013 2.7 times the average of conventional software, it claimed.<\/p>\n

At the time of analysis, less than two-fifths (38%) of LLM vulnerabilities had been fixed, while 62% remained open \u2013 the lowest resolution rate of any asset class.<\/p>\n

Mean time to resolve (MTTR) for AI\/LLM security issues rose from 19 days to 36 days over the period, which Cobalt claimed shows that teams are tracking \u201csignificantly harder vulnerabilities\u201d than before.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cLLM vulnerabilities are deeply context-dependent and invisible to tools that lack an…<\/p>\n

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