You Can’t Patch Your Way Out of This One
Summary: An opinion piece states that the Claude Mythos model uncovered thousands of vulnerabilities in everyday software in a single sweep, generated working exploits, and surfaced bugs that had survived decades of human review, including a 27-year-old flaw in OpenBSD, a 17-year-old flaw in FreeBSD, and a 16-year-old vulnerability in FFmpeg. The author argues the bottleneck was never discovery but triage, prioritization, remediation, testing, and deployment, and that AI has accelerated the rate at which that backlog compounds. The piece cites the EU Cyber Resilience Act, which will require manufacturers to report actively exploited vulnerabilities within 24 hours beginning this September, with broader enforcement obligations taking effect in December 2027.
Why it matters: Regulators will not accept a growing remediation queue as an explanation after an incident, and the CRA's 24-hour reporting clock starts this September, so backlog becomes a measurable compliance risk rather than an internal metric. The author's proposed answer is runtime protections such as Load-time Function Randomization that neutralize memory-exploitation techniques at the binary level without waiting for patches.
Read the original at The Hacker News ↗
- Topics
- AI Security
- Related
- SECURITY AFFAIRS AI-CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER ROUND 8 Cyber Risks · Nov 15, 2026Pentagon Renames CDAO ‘Super Intelligence Office’ Cyber Risks · Nov 15, 2026186 Fake AI Domains Redirect Users to Click Fix Lures, Browser Malware, and Search Hijackers Cyber Risks · Nov 12, 2026