Websites taken down worldwide as AI reveals critical cyber-security threat | BBC News (youtube.com)
Governments and big companies. Two flaws in PHP (70% of websites). 4Chan and SomethingAweful down, parts of Wikipedia, because they need to patch before they go back online. Japan's PM tweeted about it, and the US's top glowy companies advised taking systems offline if you can't immediately patch. Netherlands government companies seem to have been first to go offline. BreachForums (a hacker forum) also went offline. Who knows if the hacker forum got hacked and all their creds exploited?
The AI research company said what they found was beyond the capability of people. A complex chain of steps beyond what they suspect people can conceive.
Blackhats seized the opportunity to find unpatched sites.
Ok, that's the news, and here is the tech take...