India, Aug. 5 -- Google has announced that its artificial intelligence-based tool, named Big Sleep, has discovered 20 security vulnerabilities in popular open-source software. The company shared this development as part of its broader initiative to use AI in cybersecurity research. Heather Adkins, Google's Vice President of Security, revealed the update through a post on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Big Sleep, developed in collaboration between Google DeepMind and Project Zero, analysed a variety of open-source tools and detected flaws in systems like FFmpeg and ImageMagick. These tools are widely used in multimedia processing, including handling audio, video, and image files. Although Google has not released specific technical details ...