NewsThe Guardian‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking
Cybersecurity leaders are warning that AI is now finding critical flaws in internet infrastructure faster than they can be fixed, calling it a vulnerability tsunami.
After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of ‘vulnerability tsunami’
Researchers used AI to uncover a major flaw in the PHP programming language, potentially leaving millions of websites exposed to hackers for years.
Some experts estimated 70 per cent of all sites on the internet were at risk, and tech leaders including Sam Altman and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called it a code red.
Anthropic's security chief warned there will not be enough time to patch critical infrastructure as AI enables malicious actors to exploit bugs at an unprecedented pace.
Experts say up to 70 per cent of websites running on the PHP programming language may have been vulnerable to hackers for years, so check with your web provider.
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