Llms as hackers: Autonomous linux privilege escalation attacks

The work

TitleLlms as hackers: Autonomous linux privilege escalation attacks
AuthorsAndreas Happe; Aaron Kaplan; Juergen Cito
Typearticle
Year2026
Citekeyhappe2026llms

Where it appeared

Published inEmpirical Software Engineering
Volume31
Issue3
Pages70

Identifiers

DOI10.1007/s10664-025-10758-3

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@article{happe2026llms,
  title = {Llms as hackers: Autonomous linux privilege escalation attacks},
  author = {Andreas Happe and Aaron Kaplan and Juergen Cito},
  year = {2026},
  journal = {Empirical Software Engineering},
  volume = {31},
  number = {3},
  pages = {70},
  doi = {10.1007/s10664-025-10758-3},
}

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