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Claude Mythos identified 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox codebase
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Claude Mythos identified 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox codebase

DEV Community·Achin Bansal·about 1 month ago
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Firefox CTO Bobby Holley reports that a collaboration with Anthropic using an early version of Claude Mythos Preview identified 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox, resulting in fixes shipped in Firefox 150. This represents a significant real-world demonstration of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery at scale, signalling a shift in the defender-attacker dynamic. The findings suggest LLMs are becoming operationally viable tools for large-scale code security auditing.


Read the full technical deep-dive on Grid the Grey: https://gridthegrey.com/posts/quoting-bobby-holley/

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