Websites go dark as AI exposes critical security flaws
Summary
Websites around the world went offline as governments and companies rushed to patch critical security flaws in the widely used PHP programming language. AI-assisted research uncovered the vulnerabilities, triggering warnings of potential hacks and emergency maintenance across major online services.
Key Points
- Governments and companies shut down websites worldwide after AI uncovered critical flaws in PHP, a language used by about 70% of websites.
- The US National Security Agency and authorities in Japan and the European Union urged organizations to patch immediately or take vulnerable systems offline.
- Security firms said the flaws were found using AI models, and experts warned that hackers could exploit them quickly if sites remained unpatched.
- Wikipedia, government agencies, and other services temporarily went offline while fixes were applied.
