The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

By Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess · Wired · Saturday, 24 October 2026 at 12:00 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

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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