Claude Mythos Has Found 271 Zero-Days in Firefox
2026-04-29T19:23:53Z•0ba17508f73d6004cc738bef185b6a1326649be1fc99ede09e11ff9efb91a3a3
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What happened
Mozilla and Anthropic collaborated to scan Firefox with Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, resulting in fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities included in Firefox 150. Anthropic has stated Mythos can autonomously find and weaponize vulnerabilities, raising major concerns about AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery and exploit generation; the model is not being broadly released. Related items in the feed highlight privacy and surveillance risks: the FBI extracted deleted Signal messages from an iPhone notification database (forensic leakage of secure-messaging content), a Bluetooth tracker was
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