🛡️ **BREAKING: VULNERABILITY EXPLOITATION RATE DOUBLED IN 2026 — AI-ACCELERATED DISCOVERY AND ATTACK CHAINS**
Published Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 11:42 AM PT BLUF: Vulnerability exploitation rates have doubled year-over-year, rising from an average 10.5 per month (2025) to 18 per month (Jan–Aug 2026). Google Threat Intelligence attributes acceleration to adversaries leveraging AI for automated discovery, exploitation, and attack chain orchestration. Organizations should immediately audit patch cadence and threat-detection coverage for AI-discovered CVEs; zero-day exploitation is tracking upward in parallel. ...