Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up.

In a blog post on Friday , Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of the UK's National Cyber Security Center, said organizations should brace for a looming "patch wave," driven by a backlog of weaknesses now being exposed faster than many teams can realistically fix them.

"All organizations have 'technical debt'; a backlog of technical issues – that is both expensive and time-consuming – as a result of prioritising short-term gains over building resilient products," Whitehouse wrote.

"Artificial Intelligence, when used by sufficiently-skilled and knowledgeable individuals, is showing the ability to exploit this technical debt at scale and at pace across the technology ecosystem," he added.…