Experts warn of fresh outages as AI cybersecurity threats grow
Seven cybersecurity professionals say AI cybersecurity threats are growing, as AI tools find software flaws faster and attackers can turn them into working exploits sooner.
Outages spread across government websites in Europe and elsewhere from Wednesday, after weaknesses in the PHP programming language were found.
Seven cybersecurity professionals say AI is shortening the time needed to find bugs and build working exploits.
VulnCheck research due in the coming days says AI helped double the number of digital flaws found year-on-year.
Experts disagree on whether AI will lead to a hacker free-for-all; Hunt.io said attackers had not yet built a working tool for the PHP bug as of Thursday afternoon Eastern Time.