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🇫🇷 French, 25 October 2026, AI-powered vulnerability

Start of a Chaotic Period in Cybersecurity, Warns Former Obama Advisor

Enterprises and governments scramble to fix two critical vulnerabilities discovered by AI in PHP, a widely used programming language.

Specialists in cybersecurity had been warning for months about the ability of advanced AI to detect previously unknown or hidden vulnerabilities.

The threat has now materialized on a large scale, with a significant portion of the internet at risk of being compromised, prompting governments to shut down their websites as a precaution while patches are applied.

Michael Daniel, former cybersecurity coordinator for the Obama presidency, now head of the Cyber Threat Alliance, warns that this is the beginning of a chaotic period.

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