Security researcher: today's CVE flood reflects better discovery tools, not new flaws
realsohamparekh · x · 2026-10-22
Pushing back on alarm over the recent wave of CVEs, the author argues these vulnerabilities were always there — we simply now have far better tools to discover them (accelerated, admittedly, by actual breaches). The surge reflects improved discovery and disclosure, not a sudden rise in flaws.
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