More findings than defenders can absorb
AI-assisted auditing is turning up vulnerabilities, and AI triage is turning up alerts, faster than anyone can test and ship the fixes. We track the monthly totals, what the counting actually includes, and the gap between what gets found and what gets exploited.
Microsoft shipped 974 fixes in September, a monthly record. The year is the number that matters: 2,760 so far against a previous annual record of 1,139.
12 Sep 2026 AI Alerts Grew 685 Per Cent. They Are 0.43 Per Cent of the Queue.Three numbers from one study, and 94.1 per cent of these alerts are noise. Each figure supports a different decision, and quoting one alone produces a different story.
1 Sep 2026 Google Fixed More Chrome Bugs in June Than in Two Years. Now Comes the Argument.Google patched 1,072 Chrome bugs in June against 1,036 in the prior two years. Whether that drains the exploit supply depends on a ratio nobody has measured.
12 Aug 2026 Microsoft Fixed 421 Flaws. Or 400. Only One Is Being Exploited.Three different totals are circulating for the same Patch Tuesday, and all are defensible. The one number that matters is one: a WinSock use-after-free North Korea has had since Ju...
9 Aug 2026 AI Fixed a Quarter of the Vulnerabilities Cleanly. The Failures Pass Your Tests.Researchers at 1Password's Off-by-1 Labs found that autonomously generated security patches cleanly fixed the vulnerability about a quarter of the time. The failures are the proble...
20 Jul 2026 Microsoft's Largest-Ever Patch Tuesday: 600-Plus Fixes, Two Live Zero-Days, and a Triage ProblemMicrosoft's July update fixed more than 600 CVEs — its biggest ever — including two zero-days already under attack in AD FS and SharePoint. The two exploited bugs score modestly bu...
13 May 2026 Microsoft Credits AI With Finding Bugs in May 2026 Patch Tuesday — and the Industry Should Pay AttentionMicrosoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed 118 to 138 CVEs across Windows, Office and Azure — and credited AI-assisted security research for finding several. What it means for de...