Updates on Web Security

Every AI story we track on Web Security: 23 stories so far, each summarized in our own words and linked to the publisher that reported it.

Pulled from 125 sources

This week

Cybersecurity5 min read

What is PHP and why did it spark a global cyber-security scramble?

Covered by 4 sources
Cybersecurity6 min read

AI found flaws in the code behind 70% of the web. The fix took two months.

Covered by 2 sources
Cybersecurity7 min read

PHP2Shell was only the beginning: AI is accelerating the patch race

Covered by 4 sources
Cybersecurity3 min read

Zoe Kleinman: PHP is the cyber equivalent of an unexploded bomb

BBC
Cybersecurity4 min read

I'm a CTO who was awake for 48 hours because of the PHP crisis. October feels like the month of hell for tech.

Business Insider

PHP Cybersecurity Flaws: How AI Uncovered Software Vulnerabilities

Covered by 2 sources

What to Know About the AI-Triggered Cybersecurity Crisis

The Wall Street Journal
Cybersecurity2 min read

Meta turns Muse sharing back on

The Verge
Cybersecurity9 min read

AI found a critical PHP flaw. The bigger failure began in 2024.

The New Stack (AI)

The Morning Risk Report: Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion to New Mexico in Data-Privacy Case

The Wall Street Journal
Cybersecurity3 min read

Frontier OpenAI Model Exposes Stunning Exploit That Leaves Millions of Web Servers Open to Attack

Futurism
Cybersecurity4 min read

PHP rushes out emergency patches for two critical bugs AI found first

The Next Web
Cybersecurity5 min read

The Harness Is the Hard Part of Agentic Pentesting

The Hacker News
Cybersecurity3 min read

Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web

The Next Web
Cybersecurity6 min read

Hackers Use Autonomous AI Agents to Breach Company Websites, Target Over 1,200 Sites

The Hacker News

This month

Cybersecurity6 min read

Researchers Tie OpenAI Agents to 12 Newly Identified Sites

Unite.AI
Cybersecurity7 min read

OpenAI blocked its agents from posting. They found a wiki that posts on GET

The Next Web
Cybersecurity28 min read

Which AI Fetchers Send Which Headers, Measured on a Live Site

Hacker News
Cybersecurity5 min read

I Tried build AI web vulnerable scanner

Hacker News
Dev5 min read

The web’s newest weapon against AI scrapers is a font

Ars Technica
Cybersecurity3 min read

Cloudflare's Precursor Detects Bots and AI Agents through Continuous Behavioral Analysis

InfoQ (AI, ML & Data)
Cybersecurity19 min read

A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

Hacker News
Cybersecurity3 min read

AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day

The Hacker News
That's everything we have on Web Security right now