2025: The Year Vulnerabilities Broke Every Record

**2025 security recap:** The report details a dramatic rise in disclosed vulnerabilities (≈50,000 CVEs), rapid weaponization (average time-to-exploit reported as negative one day), significant growth in CISA KEV entries (1,483 total), multiple high-severity actively exploited zero-days (including CVSS 10.0 incidents), heavy activity by Chinese-aligned APTs, an escalation in ransomware victims (8,149 listed) and the emergence of AI both as a vulnerability-finding tool and as an autonomous attack enabler — concluding that defenders cannot patch at scale and must prioritize exposure-based risk management.