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Gemini 4: A New Hope for AI Hackers

AchievementBenchmarkOct 14, 2026

In an evaluation across six controlled web application labs, Google's Gemini 4 achieved the highest vulnerability discovery score among all tested models, including GLM5.3 and Opus 5. However, its recall dropped 9pp when producing reproducible exploits, compared with 1-2pp for the others, due to frequent "soft refusals" to exploit. Gemini 4 used fewer tokens per assessment and favored file read operations—roughly 40% of tool calls—over Bash, browser, and code executions.

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