The AI vulnerability storm is here: Is your security program ready? | TechTarget

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Emerging frontier AI models, such as Anthropic's Claude Mythos, are dramatically accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation, shrinking the window between a software flaw's discovery and its weaponization to mere hours.

In just a few months, Mythos has discovered thousands of critical flaws across every major OS and browser, creating working exploits without human guidance and enabling autonomous attacks at speed and scale, according to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) report, "The Vulnerability Storm: Building a 'Mythos-ready' Security Program."

The report, co-authored with SANS, OWASP and more than a dozen CISOs, argues that organizations clinging to pre-AI assumptions about patch cycles, exploit timelines and incident frequency are operating with an already outdated risk model.

For CISOs and security teams, the trend demands a fundamental rethink of how vulnerabilities are prioritized, triaged and remediated.

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