Analysis

Statistics & Trends

Live aggregates from 41,300 security articles tracked since 19 January 2026. Recomputed on every visit — last loaded 31 May 2026.

41,300Articles tracked
7,347Vulnerabilities
3,884Attacks
2,285Critical severity
6,631With CVE ID

Volume over time

New vulnerability and attack articles per week. The roughly monthly spikes line up with Patch Tuesday — a calendar pattern, not a trend. The last point is the current week, still in progress.

014829644459274019 Jan2 Feb16 Feb2 Mar16 Mar30 Mar13 Apr27 Apr11 May25 May
Vulnerabilities Attacks

Severity distribution

All tracked articles by assigned severity. “Info” is mostly general news rather than rated findings.

Critical2,285High5,635Medium4,502Low1,094Info27,784

Severity over time

Weekly counts of critical, high, medium and low-severity articles. “Info” is excluded — at ~22,000 items it would flatten the four lines. Roughly monthly spikes track Patch Tuesday, not a trend. The last point is the current week, still in progress.

011623234846458019 Jan2 Feb16 Feb2 Mar16 Mar30 Mar13 Apr27 Apr11 May25 May
Critical High Medium Low

Attack methods — MITRE ATT&CK tactics

Most frequent ATT&CK tactics across articles where tactics were detected.

Initial Access6,243Privilege Escalation817Impact652Persistence338Exfiltration225Defense Evasion207Credential Access201Execution152Lateral Movement144Reconnaissance86

Most-affected vendors

Vendors named most often across vulnerability and attack coverage.

Microsoft1,329Linux602Cisco325Google264Fortinet221Ubuntu202Red Hat202Apple156Apache148Ibm116Oracle86Chromium84

CVSS score distribution

CVSS severity bands across the 1,776 articles carrying a score — a skewed subset. A CVSS score is extracted far more often for well-documented (severe) items, so the critical/high share here runs well above the real distribution of all vulnerabilities.

Critical (9.0-10)710High (7.0-8.9)777Medium (4.0-6.9)269Low (0.1-3.9)18

Known-exploited vulnerabilities (KEV) over time

Total CVEs on the CISA KEV catalog over time — a running count, so it only rises. The catalog launched in November 2021; CISA’s periodic bulk additions show as steeper segments. 1,607 of the 12,413 CVEs tracked here (13%) are on KEV — known to be exploited. Tracked CVEs skew toward notable and KEV-listed ones, so this share runs above the real-world exploitation rate.

03216439641,2861,607Nov 21May 22Nov 22May 23Nov 23May 24Nov 24May 25Nov 25May 26
Total CVEs on KEV

Time from CVE publication to KEV listing

For the 624 KEV CVEs published over a year ago: days between the CVE publication date and the date CISA cataloged it as exploited. The cohort is limited to mature CVEs — recent ones cannot yet show a long gap, and including them would understate the lag. “Same day or earlier” covers zero-days listed on or before publication.

Same day or earlier161-7 days68-30 days2131-90 days3591-365 days120Over 1 year426
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