An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Chrome just patched a record 429 bugs.
06-06-2026 14:24 via thenextweb.com

An AI agent found 21 zero-days in FFmpeg for $1,000. Chrome just patched a record 429 bugs.

A security startup’s autonomous AI agent found 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the open-source media library embedded in almost everything that touches video. The startup, depthfirst, says the run cost roughly $1,000 in compute. Some of the bugs had been hiding in the codebase for more than 20 years. Days later, Google shipped Chrome […]
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