AI has caused major acceleration in cybersecurity vulnerability discovery, with the rate of vulnerabilities reported dramatically accelerating in 2026 compared to 2025

The rate of vulnerabilities reported across many projects has dramatically accelerated in 2026 compared with 2025, both for specific projects (cURL, OpenSSL, Firefox, and Microsoft) and for aggregate vulnerability databases (the US NVD, and OSV)

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