AI is Putting Global Digital Infrastructure at Risk
Last month, vulnerabilities dubbed PHP2Shell were uncovered in the open-source PHP language used by most computer programmers that design and run websites around the world. As a result, many governments alerted website administrators to undertake emergency updates in order to fix those vulnerabilities. This batch of vulnerabilities illustrates the magnitude of the threat posed to digital infrastructure by increasingly powerful AI models. While many website administrators raced to fix those weaknesses identified by AI, experts are concerned that this is just the beginning and more vulnerabilities are likely to be uncovered as more cybersecurity teams probe existing systems to find…
