AI helps researchers find critical PHP bugs powering ~70% of the web
alex_verem · x · 2026-10-22
Security researchers are calling this week "Black October": researchers working with OpenAI and Wiz used AI to discover two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, which powers roughly 70% of websites worldwide.
Timeline: details leaked early, forcing PHP to ship emergency patches on Wednesday. Cloudflare reported tens of thousands of exploit attempts within the first 45 minutes — a landmark case of AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.
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