The New Arms Race: AI Just Picked a Side... Both Sides

AI is accelerating software vulnerability discovery for both defenders and attackers, intensifying the longstanding security imbalance in which attackers need only find one flaw while defenders must protect every potential weakness. The passage argues that rising bug bounty submissions reflect continuous, automated code analysis rather than increased human research, making vulnerabilities and zero-days more likely to be found at machine speed. Because the same AI capabilities can improve defensive scanning or enable attackers to identify overlooked flaws, organizations that adapt their processes fastest gain an advantage. It urges security leaders to treat the increase in discovered vulnerabilities as a lasting baseline rather than a temporary spike, shift from periodic audits and quarterly patch cycles toward continuous monitoring and remediation, and pay particular attention to internally developed and lightly managed open-source components.

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