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Mozilla boasts Mythos boosted Firefox bug cull

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Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
35/100

Date Published: 2026-05-07

Date Updated: 2026-05-08

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Mozilla reported fixing 423 Firefox security bugs in April, attributing many findings to AI-assisted analysis (Anthropic’s Mythos and other models) combined with improved middleware/harnesses; the write-up highlights several high-severity issues (including sandbox escapes and a 20-year-old heap use-after-free) and covers skepticism from security researchers who argue the improvements may come more from the harness than the models themselves.

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