AI-Driven Exploitation is Destroying Vulnerability Management. Here’s How to Handle It.
Summary: AI-driven exploitation has compressed the window between vulnerability disclosure and in-the-wild attack to single-digit hours, while the Verizon 2026 DBIR reports the median time for organizations to patch a critical vulnerability rose from 32 days to 43 days year over year. Anthropic's Project Glasswing update in May 2026 said it and roughly 50 partners used Claude Mythos Preview to find more than 10,000 high- or critical-severity vulnerabilities across systemically important software in a single month, and India's CERT-IN has issued guidance pointing toward sub-day patching expectations for certain critical vulnerabilities.
Key Takeaway: Attackers work in hours and defenders patch in weeks, and that gap is where exploitation happens - a gap that faster patching alone cannot close when remediation is bound by uptime, testing, change windows, and approvals.
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