Inside "Black October": AI's cyber scare delivers a Y2K lesson

The anticipated wave of automated attacks exploiting AI-discovered flaws in web's foundational code has struggled, with millions of attempts yielding few successes. Security researchers say the PHP vulnerabilities are unusually hard to exploit, though the difficulty shouldn't downplay AI-driven hacking threats. Analysts liken the episode to Y2K, where dire warnings spurred preemptive defenses.