---
id: 5207
title: "XBOW Unleashes GPT-5’s Hidden Hacking Power, Doubling Performance"
source_domain: xbow.com
source_url: "https://xbow.com/blog/gpt-5"
published_at: "2025-08-15T12:00:00Z"
tags: ["benchmark", "llm", "ai-pentesting", "performance", "openai", "gpt-5"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5207"
lang: en
---

# XBOW Unleashes GPT-5’s Hidden Hacking Power, Doubling Performance

## Summary

Reports that integrating GPT-5 into XBOW's agent framework more than doubled pentest performance, despite OpenAI's system card rating its standalone cyber capabilities as modest.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** xbow.com
- **Published:** 2025-08-15T12:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://xbow.com/blog/gpt-5
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5207