AI Just Found a Bug Hiding in 70% of the Internet

For more than ten years, a crack sat inside PHP, the language behind roughly 70% of websites. Human experts walked right past it. Then an AI found it, and the people who keep the internet running had days to fix it before attackers caught up. This is the story of PHP2Shell: what actually broke (explained simply, no hacking how-to), how AI models found it, the quiet race to patch it, and what it means for you if you run a site, or just use the web. Chapters 0:00 The warning on Hacker News 0:31 The lock everyone uses 1:24 The crack 2:43 The AI detective 4:11 The race 5:42 The flip side 6:47 What it means for you If you run a website: ask your host, in writing, whether PHP has been updated. If you run your own server, update PHP today and keep backups off the server. Sources Wiz Research, "PHP2Shell": https://wiz.io/blog/php2shell-php-rce BleepingComputer, PHP ships emergency patches for critical PHP2Shell flaws: https://bleepingcomputer.com/news/sec... The Boston Globe, Oct 21 2026: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/2... The Wall Street Journal, "AI Just Found a Bug That Puts Up to 70% of the World's Websites at Risk" (syndicated): https://www.tovima.com/wsj/ai-just-fo... Crying Out Cloud podcast, Breaking down PHP2Shell with Sagi Tzadik and Thai Duong: https://www.wiz.io/crying-out-cloud/b... Watch next: How AI Language Models Actually Work    • How AI Language Models Actually Work   Animation, characters and voice are original to Informator. Narration uses a synthetic voice. #AI #cybersecurity #PHP