AI digs up decades of code debt. Patch up.

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre warns that AI-assisted vulnerability discovery is surfacing years of accumulated technical debt, leading to a coming patch wave of fixes across severities. NCSC CTO Ollie Whitehouse urges organizations to shrink internet-facing attack surfaces, prepare to patch at scale, and replace unsupported systems as AI tools accelerate both defensive and offensive bug hunting.

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