Article Summary

A decades-old security flaw in PHP, a programming language used by most websites, was ignored because it was too tedious for humans to exploit—until AI recently figured it out in just two days, forcing an urgent global patch. The article warns that AI is turning once-theoretical vulnerabilities into real, immediate threats, and that the systems underpinning the internet are far more fragile than people realize. Experts say this is a wake-up call: AI changes everything about cybersecurity, and the next attack might not come from a human.