Mozilla Used Anthropic’s Mythos to Find and Fix 271 Bugs in Firefox
2026-04-22T08:52:09Z•a78f1fb4453327363099486a40fc5ea5123063418e69cf5fa4685b6b1e5e22c0
AI-assisted security testingAnthropic MythosDDoS (Bluesky)EU age-verification appGrapheneOS disputeMadison Square GardenMeta scam-ads lawsuitMozilla FirefoxOpenAI GPT-5.4-CyberSection 702 surveillance debateTelegramchild safetycrosswalk system hackcrypto scamdeepfake nudesplatform moderation failuresprivacypush notification interceptionsurveillance abusesvulnerability research
What happened
A batch of WIRED security stories highlights converging risks from AI, privacy abuses, platform negligence, and exploitable infrastructure. Mozilla used Anthropic’s Mythos to discover and fix 271 bugs in Firefox, illustrating both AI-assisted security testing and concerns that powerful models could be repurposed by attackers; OpenAI also announced a cybersecurity-focused model. Other items detail practical threats and harms: an EU age‑verification app reportedly hackable in minutes, a global surge in AI-generated deepfake nudes targeting students, Telegram hosting a large sanctioned crypto‑scm
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- 2026-04-22T08:52:09Z
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