Governments and companies around the world are racing to fix vulnerabilities revealed by artificial intelligence that could affect 70 per cent of the world's websites.
Some websites and services briefly went dark after the set of vulnerabilities were announced on Wednesday.
The US National Security Agency and Europe's cybersecurity agency advised companies to take immediate action to address two critical flaws in PHP, a programming language that powers 70 per cent of the world's websites.
The flaws in PHP were uncovered and addressed by teams at OpenAI, Google-owned cybersecurity company Wiz, and another cybersecurity company, Calif.
Wiz said the underlying flaws had existed for a decade, but exploiting them involved a complex set of steps at the edge of what human researchers could practically achieve.
Researchers then deployed AI to adapt techniques for taking advantage of those vulnerabilities, known as exploits in cybersecurity, and analyze the results.
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