Cybercriminals try to cash in on AI-discovered website bug
by editors@theworld.org (Joyce Hackel) from The World: Latest Stories on (#7981P)
A vulnerability identified by artificial intelligence in the popular programming language PHP set off a global scramble this week. As IT teams around the world rushed to take down websites that rely on PHP and patch the flaw, cybercriminals raced to exploit it. Johns Hopkins University's Matthew Green tells The World's Host Carolyn Beeler that China's open-weight AI models likely powered some of the attacks.