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Apr 24 2026 - Mozilla Patched 271 Firefox Vulnerabilities

Mozilla just patched 271 Firefox vulnerabilities found using Mythos. It does seem like in the long run, defenders will win:

“For a hardened target, just one such bug would have been red-alert in 2025, and so many at once makes you stop to wonder whether it’s even possible to keep up.”

“Our work isn’t finished, but we’ve turned the corner and can glimpse a future much better than just keeping up. Defenders finally have a chance to win, decisively.”

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“We have many years of experience picking apart the work of the world’s best security researchers, and Mythos Preview is every bit as capable. So far we’ve found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can’t.

“This can feel terrifying in the immediate term, but it’s ultimately great news for defenders. A gap between machine-discoverable and human-discoverable bugs favors the attacker, who can concentrate many months of costly human effort to find a single bug. Closing this gap erodes the attacker’s long-term advantage by making all discoveries cheap.”

- Bobby Holley, The zero-days are numbered


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