PHP's scariest day ever — Transcript

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1. 0:00This might go down as the scariest day
2. 0:01in internet history. The NSA, the FBI,
3. 0:04the EU, and even Japan's Prime Minister
4. 0:06are telling governments to take their
5. 0:07sites offline. Here's exactly what's
6. 0:09going on. Back in August, a security
7. 0:10firm called Qualys was using
8. 0:11GPT-5.6-Soul
9. 0:13to dig through PHP. If you don't know,
10. 0:15PHP is the language behind 70% of
11. 0:17websites. And they found a bug so bad
12. 0:19that anyone could run their own code on
13. 0:21your server without even logging in. The
14. 0:23worst part, it had been sitting there
15. 0:24for 14 years. Weeks later, OpenAI and
16. 0:27Wiz, another firm, found the same bugs.
17. 0:29And once they all saw how bad it was,
18. 0:30they got to work. PHP started building a
19. 0:32fix, and the plan was simple. Everyone
20. 0:34keeps quiet until the patch was ready.
21. 0:36Then, out of nowhere, someone posted
22. 0:37about it. There was even a video of it
23. 0:39hijacking WordPress and Magento servers.
24. 0:41And the second the news was out,
25. 0:42everyone jumped together. On one end,
26. 0:43hackers started hammering websites. On
27. 0:45the other, the NSA, the FBI, the UK, the
28. 0:47EU, and even Japan's PM are all telling
29. 0:49everyone to patch it right now or take
30. 0:51their sites offline ASAP. So, now it's a
31. 0:54race. Major sites are all going offline
32. 0:56for emergency updates, including a bunch
33. 0:58of government websites. Meanwhile,
34. 0:59hackers are trying their best to exploit
35. 1:01and get in first. What's worrying is
36. 1:03that even though the patch is out, it
37. 1:04only covers newer versions of PHP.
38. 1:06Overall, this might go down in history
39. 1:08as the moment that tells us that AI
40. 1:10breaking the internet era has finally
41. 1:12arrived, and there's no hiding it.