One of the clearest trends in the 2025 Talos Year in Review is just how quickly vulnerabilities are now being turned into working exploits. What used to take weeks or months is now happening in days, sometimes hours — and in some cases, exploitation is beginning almost immediately after vulnerability details are made public. The process of exploitation itself is changing. With the increasing availability of proof-of-concept code, automation, and AI-assisted tooling, certain vulnerabilitie
