Article on the new wave of AI-generated bug reports, and how patches are quickly turned into exploits with automation assistance.
There are really plenty of them, including in commercial software - Firefox has for April twenty times more security bugs reported than normal.
I can't tell how dramatic this is really. Maybe this is being cooked a tad hotter than it is eaten. Some reports on AI capabilities are basically clever marketing - or even outright misleading.
What is clear is that distros will need to fix more bugs, and it will take some time until most uncovered bugs are fixed.
Users will need to update more frequently.
Frugal configurations might become even more attractive.
Who is in for a bad time are probably vendors and users of "connected" devices which were never designed to be updated. Every Smart TV, Amazon Echo, "Smart" home device, or "Smart" toothbrush will likely become open to black hats or enemies of peace and democracy which invade your home network. Including medical stuff...
Some devices should probablybe put in a Farady cage - say anything that would be able to start a fire.
I am curious about what will happen next month. Will Mythos find 500-1000 new bugs or will Mozilla have fixed every bug pattern Mythos knows and they will get few if any additional bugs? Will Mythos start hallucinating bugs or suggesting exploits that require an impossible coincidence to occur?