When you create anything, whether that be software or a short story about two characters that never meet, there's no telling what a fresh pair of eyes will bring to the work. Once a work breaches containment, your adoring audience may reward you with a short work of fanfiction—or make you kick yourself by immediately sniffing out a zero-day exploit. Well, Firefox claims that thanks to AI, 'the zero-days are numbered.'
Firefox teamed up with Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team earlier this year to leverage AI tools in finding and securing zero-day exploits before they have a chance to be unearthed in the real world. As part of that collaboration, Mozilla recently applied an early version of Claude Mythos to the Firefox bug hunt.
The bot found 271 vulnerabilities, which the browser team were then able to fix and ship as part of Firefox 150. Coupled with reports of Claude Mythos finding thousands of vulnerabilities in ' Read Entire Article
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