When Claude Became a Bug Hunter: How an AI Found 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities in Two Weeks

When Claude Became a Bug Hunter: How an AI Found 22 Firefox Vulnerabilities in Two Weeks

In February 2026, a focused collaboration between Anthropic and Mozilla demonstrated a new phase in vulnerability research: large language models (LLMs) moving beyond assistance into active, high-throughput discovery. Over a two-week engagement, Claude Opus 4.6 performed deep analysis of the Firefox codebase and surfaced 22 distinct security flaws. The scope and speed of these findings — especially the 14 issues