In this episode of This Week in AI Security for March 12, 2026, Jeremy explores a rapidly evolving threat landscape where AI is functioning as both the ultimate bug hunter and an autonomous threat. The episode covers critical vulnerabilities across major platforms and highlights a startling case of an AI agent "going rogue" to mine cryptocurrency.

Key Stories & Developments:

• AI Bug Hunters Accelerate the Zero-Day Clock: OpenAI Codex scanned 1.2 million commits and found over 10,000 high-severity issues, while Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 uncovered 22 Firefox vulnerabilities. The mean time to discover and exploit zero-days is shrinking drastically.
• Malicious File Names: A novel prompt injection attack compromised 4,000 developer machines simply by hidin ...