{"id":619886,"date":"2026-04-22T00:04:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619886\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T00:04:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T00:04:08","slug":"mozilla-anthropics-mythos-found-271-security-vulnerabilities-in-firefox-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619886\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla: Anthropic’s Mythos found 271 security vulnerabilities in Firefox 150"},"content":{"rendered":"

By identifying bugs so efficiently, Holley writes that AI tools like Mythos tilt the cybersecurity balance toward defenders, who benefit when discovering vulnerabilities becomes cheaper for both sides. \u201cComputers were completely incapable of doing this a few months ago, and now they excel at it,\u201d Holley writes. \u201cWe have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world\u2019s best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable.\u201d<\/p>\n

In an interview with Wired<\/a>, Holley said that, from now on, this kind of AI-aided vulnerability analysis is something that \u201cevery piece of software is going to have to [engage with], because every piece of software has a lot of bugs buried underneath the surface that are now discoverable.\u201d And while it\u2019s possible that future models more advanced than Mythos may be able to find bugs that current models miss, Holley said he was confident that \u201cat least on the Firefox side, having had a bit of a head start here, that we\u2019ve rounded the curve.\u201d<\/p>\n

Running through the AI-aided defense gauntlet could be especially important for the open source projects that underpin much of the modern Internet. That\u2019s both because their public codebases are easier for AI systems to explore for vulnerabilities and because many such projects rely on wildly insufficient volunteer maintenance for their security.<\/p>\n

In a New York Times essay last week<\/a>, Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian argued that the human difficulty of both finding bugs and writing complex software has created a kind of balance in cyberthreat research that Mythos could break wide open. \u201cThe programmer who gave 20 years of his life to maintain [open source] code that runs inside products used by billions of people? He doesn\u2019t have access to Mythos yet. He should,\u201d Krikorian wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By identifying bugs so efficiently, Holley writes that AI tools like Mythos tilt the cybersecurity balance toward defenders,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-619886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}