Linux’s kernel project patched over 1,000 vulnerabilities last month.

Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre warns of an unprecedented rise in cyber incidents in coming months.

Chief executive Richard Horne says AI lets attackers exploit long-tolerated weaknesses at a scale once unimaginable.

Officials concede experts have not yet seen a matching rise in exploitation.

The agency rates AI-powered ransomware against critical infrastructure by 2028 as highly likely.

How each outlet framed it
The Record leans critical
stresses the warning is about vulnerability-discovery volume, not new AI attack methods, and quotes the Five Eyes 'months not years' timeline

Sources: The Record