Additional Resources:
Patrick Garrity of @vulncheck joins me to break down their State of
Exploitation 1H-2026 report: how fast vulnerabilities are actually being
exploited, whether AI-assisted discovery lived up to the hype, and what is genuinely getting hit in the wild.
Full report: VulnCheck State of Exploitation 1H-2026 | Blog | VulnCheck
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Transcripts
00:00 - Intro: Where’s the Vulnpocalypse?
01:19 - What VulnCheck set out to test
03:11 - Time to look at the numbers
03:41 - Finding a vulnerability isn’t a path to exploitation
04:46 - CVE volume is way up, exploitation isn’t
05:47 - Reactive patching vs. finding bugs first
06:49 - Developers build for working, not secure
08:23 - LangFlow, leaked API keys, and Docker Compose on GitHub
10:57 - Default configs and the CVSS 10.0 nobody turns on
12:50 - CMS, ClickFix, and the cybercrime supply chain
13:38 - Default passwords and exploits that sit unused
14:26 - Keep patching. It’s not doom and gloom.