There's only so much code: the rise in vulnerability numbers

Reported by Cisco Talos (Kri Dontje)

Summary by Cyber Security News20 Oct 2026, 17:31 CET

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Frontier AI models (like Mythos) are rapidly mining decades of technical debt across ubiquitous legacy libraries, driving monthly Microsoft Patch Tuesday vulnerability advisories up more than tenfold (reaching 1,415 this month). This volume is overwhelming open-source maintainers and putting pressure on the traditional 90-day coordinated disclosure model.

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