Government and company websites around the world briefly went dark and suspended some services, as operators scrambled to patch their systems after artificial intelligence helped find critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language.
The flaws could allow attackers to remotely execute code, disrupt services and expose customer data, according to web infrastructure providerCloudflare.
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Government and company websites around the world briefly went dark and suspended some services, as operators scrambled to patch their systems after artificial intelligence helped find critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language.
The discovery comes as advancements in AI have raised concerns from Washington to Silicon Valley about how the technology could supercharge cyberattacks.
