May 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: AI starts driving security industry changes
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Feed Name: Help Net Security
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This bulletin summarizes rapidly increasing vulnerability discovery driven by Anthropic's Mythos (Project Glasswing), NIST's move to threat-based CVE enrichment, recent out-of-band Microsoft patches addressing a critical ASP.NET data-protection elevation-of-privilege (CVE-2026-40372), the Linux CopyFail root escalation (CVE-2026-31431), ongoing exploit activity (Bluehammer and related variants), and a forecast of broad Patch Tuesday updates across major vendors.
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