404 Media: PHP2Shell shows AI speeding up both attack and defense

404 Media analyzes how the PHP2Shell episode shows AI accelerating vulnerability discovery, exploit development and patching, shrinking the window defenders have to respond to disclosure. Researchers at Wiz, Calif and OpenAI used AI to find the PHP flaws, and some sites went offline temporarily to update. Whether fixes reach every company faster remains a complicated question.

Why it matters: It traces how the PHP2Shell flaws were found and disclosed, and why AI-speed discovery still runs into the limits of each site's ability to deploy patches.