Firefox: The zero-days are numbered
Date:
Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:23:40 +0000
Description:
This
Firefox blog post reports that the Firefox150 release includes
fixes for 271 vulnerabilities found by the Claude Mythos preview. Elite security researchers find bugs that fuzzers can't largely by
reasoning through the source code. This is effective, but
time-consuming and bottlenecked on scarce human
expertise. Computers were completely incapable of doing this a few
months ago, and now they excel at it. We have many years of
experience picking apart the work of the world's best security
researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable. So far
we've found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans
can find that this model can't. This can feel terrifying in the immediate term, but it's ultimately
great news for defenders. A gap between machine-discoverable and
human-discoverable bugs favors the attacker, who can concentrate
many months of costly human effort to find a single bug. Closing
this gap erodes the attacker's long-term advantage by making all
discoveries cheap.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1068906/
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