{"id":644867,"date":"2026-10-29T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644867\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:36:09","slug":"worried-about-a-new-wave-of-ai-hacks-take-these-steps-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/644867\/","title":{"rendered":"Worried about a new wave of AI hacks? Take these steps right now."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"WZTGTID4WZF6JLFR7RF6WSWA7I\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">You could be forgiven for reading recent headlines about massive and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities in the internet\u2019s core infrastructure and thinking: Stop the web, I want to log off.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MBAVVDQF4ZBHBEDLMDAWF3RHUU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/technology\/2026\/10\/21\/websites-scramble-fix-software-flaw-that-could-put-much-internet-risk\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> most recent one<\/a> ranks as one of the worst in terms of making any individual person online feel powerless: Teams of researchers using artificial intelligence tools from<a href=\"https:\/\/calif.io\/php2shell\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> OpenAI<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiz.io\/blog\/php2shell-php-rce\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Google<\/a> found serious and long-standing weaknesses in a scripting language called<a href=\"https:\/\/www.php.net\/manual\/en\/introduction.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> PHP<\/a> used at about 70 percent of all websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You could be forgiven for reading recent headlines about massive and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities in the internet\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-644867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}