Exploit in Hours — The Patch Wave the Estate Cannot Absorb — severe-but-plausible scenario — ITOL

Vector: Cyber · Severity: severe

Frontier AI models now find and weaponize flaws faster than vendors ship fixes and faster than the bank can test them. One month brings a record count of critical fixes across the estate, several with exploits in the wild within days, and the bank's own code is in scope. The question is which services to take down to patch, and how often.