75% of Firms Deploy Vulnerable Code Amid Pressure on CISOs, Report Finds

A wide-ranging set of Infosecurity Magazine reports highlights a surge in high-impact vulnerabilities, active exploitation, and growing AI-related risk. Key findings: Checkmarx reports business pressure leads 75% of firms to deploy vulnerable code; AI coding adoption is near-universal but governance is weak (97% use AI assistants, ~30% have full governance) while attackers and nation-state actors misuse AI for malware development and EDR evasion. Multiple critical vulnerabilities are reported or exploited in the wild — Google patched CVE-2026-11645 (sandbox RCE via crafted HTML), Check Point’s