Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a document variety of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fastened and 112 of them assembly the excessive critical-severity threshold.
It was solely two months in the past that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, final month, Microsoft patched some 620 of them. Google and different firms have additionally printed document numbers of vulnerabilities in current months. Two weeks in the past, OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Net Providers, Google, Microsoft, and 100 firms and organizations printed an open letter warning of a narrowing window for patching vulnerabilities forward of an anticipated tsunami of AI-enabled assaults that actively exploit them first. The business is taking the menace severely by pumping out unprecedented numbers of patches of their software program.
Welcome to the brand new regular
Dustin Childs, a researcher on the Zero Day Initiative, calls the spikes the “new regular” and in addition cautions that regardless of them, the harm that’s more likely to end result from AI-assisted assaults may ultimately be substantial.
