The end of the internet as we know it? What the PHP incident means and how devastating the 'vulnerability tsunami' could be — in a new issue of the tech newsletter "No matter how bad things have been over the past four days, the situation will get worse before it starts getting better" — that's how Jason Clinton, deputy head of cybersecurity at Anthropic, commented yesterday on the discovery of critical vulnerabilities in PHP. Just two months ago he predicted that a 'tsunami of vulnerabilities' was coming for the internet, and it seems he was right. The past few days have been a waking nightmare for cybersecurity specialists: due to the threat of hacks, government agencies and companies around the world have been preemptively shutting down their websites and online services, while users have been sounding the alarm about the safety of their data. Against the backdrop of rapid AI development, cybersecurity news already sounds apocalyptic: AI agents are already evading systems that monitor their behavior, and American banks can't always distinguish human actions from those of an AI agent — or determine whether the user actually authorized it to perform them. But the vulnerabilities discovered in PHP take the threat to a new level. OpenAI stated that this incident marks the beginning of a new stage, one in which AI is capable of finding vulnerabilities that 'threaten the security of the internet on a global scale.' And the 'hole' in the internet's foundational layer may be just the beginning. 👍 What does all this mean, and are we really entering a 'Wild West' era of cybersecurity? We break it down in a new issue of The Bell.Tech newsletter — subscribe to read it this weekend.
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