expert reaction to the PHP cybersecurity issue
Source: Science Media Centre
Published on: 2026-10-22 11:16
Scientists react to the PHP cybersecurity issue that led to website being taken offline worldwide. Dr Soteris Demetriou, Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, said: "The PHP2Shell vulnerabilities are alarming, but not surprising. It has been clear for some time that AI makes vulnerability discovery faster and cheaper. The flawed code had been present in PHP for more than ten years, and frontier models made it practical to understand the weakness and build a working exploit within days. In this case (white hackers or defenders) found the problem first and coordinated a fix with the PHP Foundation which is the good news, although this does not mean this had not been or couldn't have been independently discovered by malicious actors. For this incident difficult part begins now. The patch has to reach millions of servers, many of which are run by sm...
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