Google awarded XBOW $250,000 after researchers connected three Chrome vulnerabilities into an exploit that could run code outside the browser sandbox on Windows.
A state can now signal resolve, coerce a rival, or degrade an adversary's military capability without firing a physical weapon. Cybersecurity and diplomacy used to run in separate lanes, and that separation no longer holds.
In 1996, attackers didn't need to break into US networks. They used authorized access to exfiltrate data undetected for two years. Today, autonomous AI is exposing that exact same security blind spot.
