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Claude Mythos finds 271 Firefox flaws, Mozilla believes it shifts security toward defenders

ID: 88d030d6-c728-5f48-84fe-24805a6c9965

STIX ID: report--88d030d6-c728-5f48-84fe-24805a6c9965

Feed Name: Help Net Security

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-04-22

Date Updated: 2026-04-28

Author: Sinisa Markovic

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Mozilla tested Anthropic's Claude Mythos AI and reported it found large numbers of security-sensitive bugs in Firefox (dozens to hundreds across releases), prompting fixes and raising concern that such models can rapidly surface zero-day vulnerabilities. Anthropic has restricted access to the model (Project Glasswing) due to the risk of misuse to create exploits, and there were reports of unauthorized attempts to gain access to the system.

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