Did you hear about the unprecedented string of cybersecurity incidents that happened this week?
One of the biggest PHP vulnerabilities EVER just happened: researchers found PHP2Shell, two critical flaws in the PHP runtime that let an attacker with no account run code on almost any PHP web server ‼️This affects ~70% of the websites on the Internet.
As a sign of where AI-driven security research is heading: those bugs sat in PHP for over a decade, and AI tools helped researchers build working exploits in about a week instead of months. And after details leaked early, while PHP rushed out emergency patches on October 21 & multiple government / enterprise websites shut down as a precautio