Claude Mythos Has Found 271 Zero-Days in Firefox
2026-04-30T07:23:41Z•0d3f1d2e4f11fdf5b1232b6a742f646992eb0abfa44aae6c508b8b06993c6130
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What happened
The collection highlights major security and privacy developments: Anthropic’s new model, Claude Mythos (Preview), was used to scan Firefox and identified 271 security-sensitive bugs that were fixed in Firefox 150 — and Anthropic says Mythos can autonomously find and weaponize vulnerabilities, so it is being tightly controlled. Mozilla has been using frontier AI models (e.g., Opus and Mythos) to accelerate bug-finding. Related pieces note serious operational/privacy risks: the FBI forensically extracted incoming Signal messages from an iPhone notification database even after the app was uninst
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- 2026-04-30T07:23:41Z
- AI-assisted enrichment
- Yes
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