CrowdStrike’s 2026 Global Threat Report and IBM X-Force document a structural shift in adversary capability: AI tooling is compressing the window between vulnerability discovery and active exploitation, with a reported 42% increase in zero-days exploited before public disclosure and an 89% year-over-year rise in AI-assisted attacks. This is not a specific product vulnerability but a threat model update that affects every vendor’s products and every organization’s patch prioritization methodology.