The vulnerability flood is here. Here’s what it means – and how to prepare

Sophos warns that emergent AI models dramatically speed vulnerability discovery and exploit development—potentially turning long-lived, unpatched edge devices into permanent footholds—illustrating the risk with the Pacific Rim APT campaign and an internal OpenClaw red-team exercise; the report urges vendor-owned hotfix capability, transparency, active defense, accelerated patching, and treating perimeter compromise as an expected incident.