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Attackers are using AI agents to exploit vulnerabilities faster than security teams can keep up. AIKO Monitor ships patches in under a minute, while the attack is still running.

35,872
CVEs published in 2026
11 min
Average time to exploit
< 60s
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CVE fatigue

No team has time to read 198 CVEs a day

Exploitation timeline has crossed what patching time was designed for. In 2026, the average vulnerability is already exploited in the wild before a patch is available.

From Vulnerability to Exploitation

TTE measures the gap between CVE public disclosure and first confirmed in-the-wild exploitation. Zero = same-day.

Mean TTE(10% trimmed, days)Source: zerodayclock.com
Mean time from vulnerability disclosure to exploitation, 2018 to 20262.5y1.4y8.2mo0m2.3y20181.7y20191.3y202010.0mo20218.6mo20224.2mo202353d202421.5d2025-1.1d2026
CVEs published per yearSource: CVE Program / NVD via CVEdetails

*2026 covers H1 only — 35,872 records in six months, already three quarters of all of 2025. That is 198 new CVEs every single day, and the curve bent upward the moment agents started finding bugs at scale.

CVEs published per year, 2016 to the first half of 20266.4k201614.6k201716.5k201817.3k201918.3k202020.2k202125.1k202229.1k202340.1k202448.2k202535.9k2026*

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AIKO learns how your application behaves and detects exploitation from live traffic — even when the vulnerability isn’t known yet. It blocks the attack, then drafts and verifies the patch.

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  1. Recovery grant issued for one account reset another

    Detected · by AIKO

    The attacker completed recovery for their own account, then submitted the verified reset grant with a support operator's email. The server validated the grant but not the account it belonged to.

  2. Reset support account opened an impersonation session

    Stage 1 · by Attacker

    After signing in with the new password, the attacker used the platform's “Log in as customer” feature to create a short-lived session for a workspace owner.

  3. Impersonated owner prepared a billing export

    Stage 2 · by Attacker

    The new session opened billing exports and requested a preview covering 4,218 customer and invoice records. No export had been generated yet.

  4. AIKO blocked the export before data left

    Blocked · by AIKO

    AIKO linked the password reset, compromised support account, impersonation session, and export preview. It revoked the attacker's access; the export action and 49 retries all returned 403.

  5. Recovery-binding and session-purpose patch ready

    Drafted · by AIKO

    AIKO drafted guards that bind reset grants to the account that completed recovery, require fresh authentication before impersonation, and reject support sessions from sensitive exports. It replay-tested the complete sequence.

  6. 90 seconds — account takeover → contained and patched
Handled

WordPress exploit chain created an administrator

An unfamiliar payload resembling CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137 manipulated WordPress's nested batch handling and fabricated cached posts to create an administrator. The chain slipped past the site's WAF. Aiko removed the account and blocked further attempts.

3 attempts blockedFixed automatically
Handled

Forged proxy header impersonated an internal service

A service-only route returned 401. The attacker repeated the request with X-Forwarded-Client-Cert, a header meant to be added only by the mTLS proxy; the API returned 200 and identified the caller as deployment-service. AIKO linked the single-header change to the identity switch, blocked 19 follow-up requests, and applied a rule that strips client-supplied certificate headers before authentication.

19 attempts blockedFixed automatically
Handled

Encoded path bypassed an admin-only route

The same user received 403 from /admin/runtime, then 200 from /ops/%2e%2e/admin/runtime. The app's security check saw the URL begin with /ops and allowed it. The router then decoded a hidden ../ segment, changing the request's destination to /admin/runtime. AIKO blocked 31 encoded variants and drafted a fix that normalizes paths before checking access.

31 attempts blockedPatch draft ready
Handled

WordPress exploit chain created an administrator

An unfamiliar payload resembling CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137 manipulated WordPress's nested batch handling and fabricated cached posts to create an administrator. The chain slipped past the site's WAF. Aiko removed the account and blocked further attempts.

3 attempts blockedFixed automatically
Handled

Forged proxy header impersonated an internal service

A service-only route returned 401. The attacker repeated the request with X-Forwarded-Client-Cert, a header meant to be added only by the mTLS proxy; the API returned 200 and identified the caller as deployment-service. AIKO linked the single-header change to the identity switch, blocked 19 follow-up requests, and applied a rule that strips client-supplied certificate headers before authentication.

19 attempts blockedFixed automatically
Handled

Encoded path bypassed an admin-only route

The same user received 403 from /admin/runtime, then 200 from /ops/%2e%2e/admin/runtime. The app's security check saw the URL begin with /ops and allowed it. The router then decoded a hidden ../ segment, changing the request's destination to /admin/runtime. AIKO blocked 31 encoded variants and drafted a fix that normalizes paths before checking access.

31 attempts blockedPatch draft ready
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