Mythos AI Model Finds Hundreds of Vulnerabilities in Firefox
THE SO WHAT
An AI model surfacing hundreds of Firefox vulnerabilities is a proof point that security review is becoming an AI‑first workload. CISOs should be piloting model‑driven code and dependency scanning now—before attackers use the same techniques faster than your manual review cycles can respond.
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