What Is Variant Hunting in Security? A Deep Dive
Variant hunting is one of the highest-impact activities in modern security research. Rather than looking for single, isolated vulnerabilities, variant hunting focuses on identifying patterns of flaws and tracking down all other instances of that pattern across products, codebases, or architectures. If a traditional vulnerability report is a single missing brick, variant hunting is discovering that the entire wall was built using the wrong blueprint. 🔍 What Exactly Is Variant Hunting? Variant hunting is the practice of: ...