Black October's AI-discovered PHP bugs prove hard to exploit, but experts warn of coming 'vulnpocalypse'
The anticipated wave of automated attacks has struggled to get off the ground, yet security leaders say the grace period is temporary
The cybersecurity world braced for catastrophe after AI uncovered critical flaws in PHP, the language behind roughly 70% of websites, but the anticipated wave of automated attacks has surprisingly struggled to get off the ground. Security researchers say the vulnerabilities have proven unusually difficult to exploit, drawing comparisons to the Y2K phenomenon where warnings of armageddon helped rally companies to engineer a solution in time. However, experts caution this is a temporary reprieve, with one warning that 'we don't have to wait another two years before this happens (again), it could be three hours from now.'