The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Reported by Wired (Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess)

Summary by Cyber Security News24 Oct 2026, 14:00 CET

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Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

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