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Hacktron CTO Mohan Pedhapati used Claude Opus 4.6 to develop a full exploit chain targeting the V8 JavaScript engine in Chrome 138 (as bundled in Discord), spending $2,283 in API costs and about 20 hours of human guidance over a week. The exploit successfully 'popped calc,' demonstrating a working proof-of-concept. Pedhapati argues this signals a broader shift: AI-assisted exploit development is lowering the barrier for attackers, shrinking the patch window, and making dependency hygiene and proactive security practices more critical than ever — especially for Electron-based apps running outdated Chrome versions.

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283