ðŸ‡ðŸ‡· Croatian, 25 October 2026, AI-assisted security
AI-assisted security: New challenge for internet
AI tools can now quickly identify security vulnerabilities, but this also creates new challenges for companies that maintain internet infrastructure.
The process of identifying serious security vulnerabilities in complex computer systems used to take weeks or months. Today, AI can do the same job in a few hours. This rapid progress is causing problems for companies that maintain internet infrastructure, and security experts are warning that there may be more urgent updates and temporary disruptions to internet services in the coming months.
Seven cybersecurity experts warned of the consequences of rapid vulnerability discovery in widely used software in a Reuters report on October 23. A study by the US company VulnCheck, which will be published soon, shows that the number of discovered security vulnerabilities has doubled annually, with AI being one of the key factors in this growth.
One of the most obvious examples of the problem occurred this week, when numerous organizations had to react quickly to vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language.