Vulnerability Discovery Outpaces Patching After Mythos Release; Altman Warns Patch-All-Bugs Approach No Longer Viable

Anthropic's Mythos AI has created an unprecedented vulnerability management crisis, with over 99% of discovered flaws remaining unpatched and cybersecurity researchers now warning that traditional patch-centric defense strategies are fundamentally broken. The acceleration in vulnerability discovery and exploitation has fundamentally altered the cybersecurity landscape: threat actors now exploit vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure, with the average Mean Time to Exploit reaching negative seven days—meaning exploits frequently appear before public disclosure. Meanwhile, the median time for organizations to patch known vulnerabilities has risen to 43 days, up from 32 days the previous year, creating a widening gap between attack speed and defense capability.