The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable
WIRED · 24 Oct 2026

The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

As security teams and web admins scrambled this week to patch newly public PHP bugs, criminal hackers quickly attempted to exploit the flaws in the wild. Millions of exploitation attempts hit within hours of the vulnerabilities being published, according to analysis from Cloudflare—unsurprising given broad access to AI tools that can make it easier for attackers to quickly exploit flaws. So far, the nightmare scenario of mass victim takeovers and breaches hasn’t come to pass.


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