Part of this is just that eyes are suddenly focussed on it. It's a repeated pattern in the tech industry. Several years ago it felt like we barely went a week

Part of this is just that eyes are suddenly focussed on it. It's a repeated pattern in the tech industry. Several years ago it felt like we barely went a week between Flash vulnerabilities. Then someone found a major vulnerability in the JVM, and that became the centre of attention, and it felt like we were having to patch the JVM every single month. Then something else came along and all eyes got focussed on that... rinse, repeat. Right now the CPU is becoming a focus. We've probably got another couple of years of this before it'll settle down. CPU is interesting because it's a lot harder to exploit, it's much less by way of finding low hanging fruit, unlike Flash and JVM.