A security startup's autonomous AI agent discovered 21 zero-day vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, a widely-used media library embedded in countless video applications. This AI-driven discovery coincided with Google's Chrome 149 release, which patched a record 429 security bugs—though notably, only the FFmpeg vulnerabilities were identified through AI methods.
Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release. Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI.
Originally published at thehackernews.com
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