{"id":16243,"date":"2026-04-30T14:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T21:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16243"},"modified":"2026-04-14T15:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T22:55:53","slug":"zero-day-vulnerabilities-to-exploit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16243","title":{"rendered":"Zero-day vulnerabilities to exploit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"409\" data-attachment-id=\"16245\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=16245\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/04\/e9e0e3d4-8380-4998-836d-47aef52d8275_976x624.png?fit=976%2C624&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"976,624\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"e9e0e3d4-8380-4998-836d-47aef52d8275_976x624\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/04\/e9e0e3d4-8380-4998-836d-47aef52d8275_976x624.png?fit=640%2C409&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/04\/e9e0e3d4-8380-4998-836d-47aef52d8275_976x624.png?resize=640%2C409&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/04\/e9e0e3d4-8380-4998-836d-47aef52d8275_976x624.png?w=976&amp;ssl=1 976w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/04\/e9e0e3d4-8380-4998-836d-47aef52d8275_976x624.png?resize=422%2C270&amp;ssl=1 422w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/04\/e9e0e3d4-8380-4998-836d-47aef52d8275_976x624.png?resize=300%2C192&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2026\/04\/e9e0e3d4-8380-4998-836d-47aef52d8275_976x624.png?resize=768%2C491&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I knew the pace of exploitation of security issues was getting faster and faster, but this chart shocked me. In just 5 years since 2021, the time between when a security issue is found and security researchers find people trying to exploit it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.resilientcyber.io\/p\/the-zero-day-clock-is-ticking-why\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.resilientcyber.io\/p\/the-zero-day-clock-is-ticking-why\">went from 1.3 years to 1.6 DAYS<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While not entirely due to AI, I think hackers and exploiters are likely using AI to more quickly generate exploits. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/glasswing\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.anthropic.com\/glasswing\">Project Glasswing<\/a> was started because the upcoming version of Anthropic&#8217;s AI was finding zero-day exploits in browsers and operating systems at an alarming rate. Instead of just releasing the AI, they&#8217;re working with OS vendors from Apple to Microsoft to Linux to fix many of them before hackers take advantage of the holes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew the pace of exploitation of security issues was getting faster and faster, but this chart shocked me. In just 5 years since 2021, the time between when a security issue is found and security researchers find people trying to exploit it went from 1.3 years to 1.6 DAYS. While not entirely due to AI, I think hackers and exploiters are likely using AI to more quickly generate exploits. Project Glasswing was started because the upcoming version of Anthropic&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=16243\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4dZ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16248,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16243\/revisions\/16248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}