Google AI Uncovers 13-Year-Old Chrome Flaw Amid Record Patching Pace
The internet giant has built an agent harness to find vulnerabilities across Chrome’s codebase. The post Google AI Uncovers 13-Year-Old Chrome Flaw Amid Record Patching Pace appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Google this week confirmed that this year’s surge in Chrome vulnerabilities has been driven by the use of AI.
The increase in Chrome bugs started in April and has continued throughout July, with the latest browser release containing 370 security fixes and bringing the total number of bugs patched this year to over 1,800.
Google patched 1,072 security defects with the Chrome 149 and 150 releases, “surpassing the total number of security bugs fixed across the prior 23 milestones combined.”
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