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AI-Driven Zero-Day Discovery and Root Privilege Escalation: Linux Security Risks Rise

Research indicates that AI can discover a zero-day vulnerability every 2.5 hours and execute over 400 root privilege escalation attacks, far surpassing human reverse engineering efficiency. This highlights new security threats to Linux systems, as traditional manual audits struggle to keep up with the volume of AI-generated vulnerabilities.

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