Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
The vulnpocalypse has begun.
Palo Alto Networks usually finds five vulnerabiilties a month, but on Wednesday said it scanned its entire codecase using the latest frontier models, including Anthropic’s Mythos, and found 75 security holes, covered in 26 CVEs.
This comes a day after Microsoft said it used its new agentic bug hunting system called MDASH to find 17 vulnerabilities across its products - on a record-setting Patch Tuesday that saw Redmond disclose a whopping 30 critical CVEs.
Plus, last week Mozilla said it fixed 423 Firefox bugs in April, which is more than five times higher than the 76 fixes issued in March and almost 20 times higher than its 21.5 monthly average last year. The browser maker previously said Mythos found 271 flaws in Firefox 150.
It shouldn’t be all that shocking. Security vendors have long warned about attackers using AI, and how this means defenders need...
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