Google’s AI bug hunter ‘Big Sleep’ finds 20 security flaws in open source software

Tech giant Google has announced that its AI-powered vulnerability researcher — Big Sleep has identified 20 security vulnerabilities widely used open source software. Google VP security Heather Adkins posted on social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) about this achievement. “Today as part of our commitment to transparency in this space, we are proud to announce that we have reported the first 20 vulnerabilities discovered using our AI-based “Big Sleep” system powered by Gemini,” wrote Adkins.

Developed jointly by Google’s DeepMind and elite Project Zero teams, the Big Sleep managed to flag flaws in various tools such as FFmpeg and ImageMagick which are used for audio, video and image processing.