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AI Uncovers Major Security Flaw Threatening Up to 70% of Global Websites

AI Uncovers Major Security Flaw Threatening Up to 70% of Global Websites

How an AI model discovered critical safety flaws in government websites
How an AI model discovered critical safety flaws in government websites

A significant number of websites, including those managed by the French government and Wikimedia, faced downtime due to identified vulnerabilities in PHP, a popular web development language....

Government scrambles to fix websites after AI discovers flaw could affect 70% of the internet
Government scrambles to fix websites after AI discovers flaw could affect 70% of the internet

A report from a cybersecurity firm estimated that the software flaw had existed undetected for more than a decade, but AI tools helped quickly identify a fix for them.

Government websites in Europe, US go dark over AI-detected flaw in a web programming language PHP
Government websites in Europe, US go dark over AI-detected flaw in a web programming language PHP

The website of the Finnish government, for one, was only partly available Wednesday. A message to visitors said government websites were experiencing a temporary disruption and were fully or...

Websites scramble to fix software flaw that could put much of internet at risk
Websites scramble to fix software flaw that could put much of internet at risk

AI-assisted research uncovered a critical flaw in software used by as much as 70 percent of websites, raising fears that hackers could rapidly exploit it.

AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World’s Websites at Risk
AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World’s Websites at Risk

AI tools helped find one of the most severe online bugs ever. Cyber experts are racing to patch it before hackers use AI to exploit it.

AI helps find vulnerability affecting up to 70% of websites
AI helps find vulnerability affecting up to 70% of websites

France, Denmark, Finland, and the Netherlands took government websites offline Wednesday after web developers used AI to identify a bug affecting up to 70% of the world’s websites.

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