AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts say
Cybersecurity researchers say AI has doubled flaw discoveries year over year, compressing patch windows and forcing some operators to take sites offline.
- Advances in artificial intelligence have uncovered a stream of new software vulnerabilities, triggering disruptions across global government websites this week, according to seven cybersecurity professionals.
- AI models subject codebases to round-the-clock scrutiny, turning around exploits in hours rather than months, effectively eliminating the breathing room defenders previously had to patch bugs.
- Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince predicted "busy months ahead" as AI surfaces weaknesses, while VulnCheck researcher Patrick Garrity expects frequent "fire drills" for internet-exposed systems.
- Operators have rushed to fix software, with some taking sites offline preemptively, though ArmorCode senior principal solutions engineer Ramy Rahman noted that "more disclosed vulnerabilities do not automatically mean more successful attacks."
- This week brought disclosures regarding Node and Plex vulnerabilities, as Virginia-based RunSafe Security CTO Shane Fry warned that "the timescale for not only finding vulnerabilities, but how quickly adversaries can weaponize them" is fundamentally changing.
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AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts say - Regional Media News
By Raphael Satter and AJ Vicens WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Advances in artificial intelligence have uncovered a stream of new software vulnerabilities that are almost certain to trigger more disruption along the lines of the outages that percolated across global government websites this week, [...]
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AI-discovered bugs may soon trigger fresh disruptions, cyber experts say
WASHINGTON, Oct 23 : Advances in artificial intelligence have uncovered a stream of new software vulnerabilities that are almost certain to trigger more disruption along the lines of the outages that percolated across global government websites this week, according to seven cybersecurity professionals who spoke to R
A flood of vulnerabilities uncovered by artificial intelligence is setting the cybersecurity industry on another difficult path. Cloudflare's CEO says it is still working to patch several critical software flaws, while experts warn that the global outages of recent days are just the beginning, Reuters reported.
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