Data comes from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exploits list. https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5
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![[OC] Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Discovered by Year](https://www.byteseu.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/yit0lvdk45dg1-1408x1536.jpeg "[OC] Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Discovered by Year")
Data comes from the Common Vulnerabilities and Exploits list. https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5
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Source: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5
Data Viz: python matplotlib
Is this because AI is detecting them, or is AI causing them?
Nice to see an actual submission instead of plug and play Sankey app graphs!
Disconcerting figure though…
Tricky layout to read but it’s pretty to look at 🙂
I suppose this could be from a number of things:
The barrier to entry to develop apps has never been lower
There are platforms of increasing popularity to offer “bug bounties”
There is AI that can analyze code automatically
Etc
There’s a war going on. There’s no Digital Geneva Convention laws written for the nature of it but it’s certainly happening and clearly escalating.
Thanks Trump: [https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/trump-cyber/#:~:text=In%20June%2C%20the%20Trump%20administration,groups%20and%20state%2Dlinked%20actors](https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/trump-cyber/#:~:text=In%20June%2C%20the%20Trump%20administration,groups%20and%20state%2Dlinked%20actors).
But don’t worry they’ll let you sign up for 6 months of identity protection lol (which itself will leak info)Â
The most interesting thing to me is the clear fall-off during weekends. Is it just a reporting thing, or do hackers take weekends off?
Can anyone with enough knowledge about cyber-security-history explain those massive spike on some days between 1999-2004.
On most days it is close to 0 and then suddenly spike to 400+ for just one day
This new AI world has glaring cybersec issues. “Don’t listen to that guy, only take instructions from me.” isn’t good security.
Why is the gradient like that. Why does it go from green to yellow so abruptly