{"id":25628,"date":"2026-10-23T23:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T21:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/black-october-cybersecurity-experts-sound-the-alarm-over-new-era-of-ai-enabled-hacking\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T23:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T21:37:14","slug":"black-october-cybersecurity-experts-sound-the-alarm-over-new-era-of-ai-enabled-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/black-october-cybersecurity-experts-sound-the-alarm-over-new-era-of-ai-enabled-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black October\u2019: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of \u2018vulnerability tsunami\u2019<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI no longer think we\u2019re going to be able to patch all bugs,\u201d said Sam Altman on Thursday evening, joining the chorus of executives. In the midst of what\u2019s being called \u201cBlack October\u201d, 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.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/oct\/23\/cybersecurity-ai-hacking-php-vulnerability\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cb4c18c4ae3df1d687b8488dfb57058ade00d1a7\/731_0_3659_2927\/master\/3659.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=22240fd63146e88296ce67fe0124324c\" title=\"\u2018Black October\u2019: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking\" \/>After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of \u2018vulnerability tsunami\u2019<br \/>\nLeaders 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.<br \/>\n\u201cI no longer think we\u2019re going to be able to patch all bugs,\u201d said Sam Altman on Thursday evening, joining the chorus of executives. In the midst of what\u2019s being called \u201cBlack October\u201d, 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&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After discovery of severe bug in the PHP programming language, executives warn of \u2018vulnerability tsunami\u2019 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. \u201cI no longer &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/black-october-cybersecurity-experts-sound-the-alarm-over-new-era-of-ai-enabled-hacking\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Black October\u2019: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}