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Deep Dive: The PHP Meltdown Shows How AI Makes Bugs More Exploitable

Ran in the Morning edition of LivePulse, Saturday, October 24, 2026
Original reporting: Wired AI · Lily Hay Newman, Matt Burgess, 2026-10-24

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.

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