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087 - AI Hacking Is Here: Black October

Podcast: Learn AI in Bits · Dan W

Opublikowano: 2026-10-23

A wave of cybersecurity disclosures has made this week feel like a turning point, with people calling it "Black October." This episode treats it as a cluster of high-impact incidents, not proof that one AI-driven campaign caused them all, and separates where AI was directly involved from where the failures were conventional. PHP2Shell tops the list: two critical PHP vulnerabilities affecting a huge share of the web's software, which researchers at Wiz used frontier AI models to help find and patch, with fixes released October 21. Amazon separately reported seeing an...