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AI Zero-Day Exploits: Developer Defense Guide 2026 (opens in new tab)

Your team ships code every day. Some of it was written by GitHub Copilot. Some came from ChatGPT suggestions you cleaned up and committed. Your CI/CD pipeline ran the tests, everything passed, and it's live in production right now. Here's the question that should keep you up tonight: How much of that code is vulnerable? In May 2026, Google's Threat Intelligence Group confirmed the first AI-generated zero-day exploit used in a real attack. Forensics revealed its AI origin through telltale sign...

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