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Wiz CTO Says AI Helped Find PHP Vulnerabilities as Organizations Rushed to Patch

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Wiz CTO Tomer Schwartz said AI enabled Wiz to find recent PHP vulnerabilities that prompted organizations to rush out patches, with some taking websites offline, according to TechCrunch. Schwartz was involved in efforts alongside OpenAI, research group Calif and the PHP team to fix the bugs. Speaking on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Schwartz said Wiz could not have found the vulnerabilities without AI and described custom tooling that tested dozens of ideas over a weekend. He discussed how AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery and exploitation, and what that means for securing and patching aging code.

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    Wiz CTO Says AI Is Speeding Up the Search for Vulnerabilities in Aging Code

    On TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Wiz CTO Tomer Schwartz discusses the recent PHP vulnerabilities and how AI is changing the pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Schwartz says Wiz couldn’t have found the bugs without AI, and describes custom tooling that tested dozens of ideas over a weekend. The article says organizations scrambled to patch the bugs, with some taking sites offline.

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