AI speeds up discovery of software flaws, experts warn of more frequent outages
Briefing by News4U · First published
Experts say AI is doubling the number of disclosed vulnerabilities and shortening the time to weaponize them, leaving defenders with less time to patch.
ITHome reported that seven cybersecurity experts interviewed by Reuters warned that AI-driven discovery of hidden software flaws will almost certainly trigger more incidents like this week’s global government website outages. [1]
VulnCheck data cited by ITHome shows the number of disclosed vulnerabilities doubled year-on-year, while Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicted the industry will feel “the sky is falling” every week for the next two years. [1]
The immediate trigger was a PHP flaw that forced emergency patches or temporary shutdowns; Node.js, Plex, LiteLLM and Railway also disclosed issues, and India’s eMudhra was found using weak encryption keys. [1]
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- 网络安全专家：AI 发现的漏洞，很快或将引发新的安全隐患
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