Several government agencies, mostly in Europe, went offline for a period of time after critical vulnerabilities were discovered in PHP, a programming language widely used by websites all around the world. The developers of the programming language urgently rolled out new fixes to patch said issues, many of which had been lurking in their software for years, and encouraged users to “update immediately”.
The PHP vulnerabilities were discovered by cyber companies Wiz and Calif, who say that it used AI-powered tools from Google and OpenAI to trace them down. The discovery reportedly brought down about 70% of the internet. That’s just a rough estimate, by the way.
Wiz and Calif, along with the PHP Foundation, were part of a program called Patch the Planet, which was started by OpenAI. The program essentially gives access to the latter company’s AI tool to find and fix flaws in web development language.
