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Mythos found 271 Firefox flaws – but none a human couldn’t spot

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
20/100

Date Published: 2026-04-22

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Simon Sharwood

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Mozilla tested Anthropic’s Mythos AI on Firefox and found a large number of bugs (22 in Firefox 148 and 271 in Firefox 150), prompting Mozilla leadership to call the result a watershed moment for defenders; the piece frames Mythos as a transformative tool that can automate complex bug discovery, shrink the gap between machine- and human-discoverable flaws, and improve defensive capabilities rather than describing active exploitation.

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