The vulnerabilities were around for years — more than a decade — but researchers were only able to understand how hackers could take advantage of them with the help of AI.
The vulnerability, called P2PShell, impacts a coding language that powers 70% of the world’s websites, enabling hackers to remotely execute code or gain access to information stored on servers. That sent websites into a scramble to update their systems, with some government websites in Europe going offline temporarily this past week until they could install the fix.
