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Mozilla Leveraged Anthropic’s Mythos to Catch and Address 271 Bugs in Firefox
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Amid a raging debate over the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday that its Firefox 150 browser release this week includes protections for 271 vulnerabilities identified using early access to Anthropic's Mythos Preview.
Key facts
- Amid a raging debate over the impact that new AI models will have on cybersecurity, Mozilla said on Tuesday that its Firefox 150 browser release this week includes protections for 271 vulnerabilities
- Mozilla's experience, at least in the short term, shows that AI tools like Mythos Preview could have a profound impact for vulnerability hunters
- Holley says that the Firefox team gained access to Mythos Preview as part of direct collaboration with Anthropic and that Mozilla is not formally part of its larger consortium, called Project
- Both Anthropic and OpenAI have announced new AI models in recent weeks that the companies say have advanced cybersecurity capabilities that could represent a turning point in how defenders—and
Summary
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have announced new AI models in recent weeks that the companies say have advanced cybersecurity capabilities that could represent a turning point in how defenders—and, crucially, attackers—find vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in software systems. Mozilla's experience, at least in the short term, shows that AI tools like Mythos Preview could have a profound impact for vulnerability hunters. “Our belief is that the tools have changed things dramatically, because now we have automated techniques that can cover, as far as we can tell, the full space of vulnerability-inducing bugs,” says Bobby Holley, Firefox's chief technology officer.