Live Roundups Editor's Desk Insights Executive Ops Weather About 🔍
Home › Technology › ‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm...
Technology

‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking

The Guardian World Friday 23 October 2026, 18:48 UTC By Johana Bhuiyan 1 min read
Key Points

After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of ‘vulnerability tsunami’Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week. They are predicting that artificial intelligence tools will expose more fundamental weaknesses in global internet infrastructure in the months to come. no longer think we’re going to be able to patch all bugs,” said Sam Altman on Thursday evening, joining the chorus of executives.

After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of ‘vulnerability tsunami’

Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week. They are predicting that artificial intelligence tools will expose more fundamental weaknesses in global internet infrastructure in the months to come.

“I no longer think we’re going to be able to patch all bugs,” said Sam Altman on Thursday evening, joining the chorus of executives. In the midst of what’s being called “Black October”, for which researchers used AI to help identify critical flaws in a coding language that is used across millions of websites and may have been unpatched for years, tech executives are warning about the ways AI will be used both to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities at an unprecedented scale and pace.

Continue reading...
PHP (ORG) Sam Altman (PERSON) Black October (EVENT) AI (ORG)
Originally published by The Guardian World Read original →

Related Stories

OpenAI Sets Target Valuation of $1.25 Trillion

Oct 23rd, 2026 OpenAI Sets Target Valuation of $1.25 Trillion OpenAI wants to raise around $30 billion in a fresh funding round. That could value the ChatGPT maker at $1.25 trillion. This is according to people familiar with the matter.

Bloomberg Technology 26m ago

If you are building AI for finance, get out while you can

LLMs are good with probabilistic logic (words), but not as good with deterministic logic (numbers).As oppose to what everybody thought 3 years ago, LLMs are not very good with finance. Makes sense when you think about it as AI in 2025 still rely heavily on language transformers, and transformers are more or less probability calculators. Ai agents in accounting firms are way less effective than Ai agents in law firms for example.

Hacker News 45m ago

‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking

After the discovery of a severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warned of a coming ‘vulnerability tsunami’Leaders in cybersecurity are sounding the alarm after the discovery of a major vulnerability this week. They are predicting that artificial intelligence tools will expose more fundamental weaknesses in global internet infrastructure in the months to come. no longer think we’re going to be able to patch all bugs,” said Sam Altman on Thursday evening, joining the chorus of...

The Guardian UK 55m ago

Soundcore’s latest noise-crushing headphones are on sale for a new low price

The Space 2 comes in multiple colors, including an attractive seafoam green. | Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge My colleague John Higgins considered Soundcore’s Space One some of the best budget noise-canceling headphones you could buy when they launched in 2023 — and their successor has only improved upon their winning formula, albeit with a $30 price increase.

The Verge 1h ago