‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking

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In the midst of what’s being called “Black October”, for which researchers used AI to help identify critical flaws in a coding language that is used across millions of websites and may have been unpatched for years, tech executives are warning about the ways AI will be used both to identify and exploit security vulnerabilities at an unprecedented scale and pace. However, in the same way AI will be used to aid in identifying security vulnerabilities at an unprecedented pace, tech leaders worry it’ll also be used by malicious actors to exploit those bugs at an unprecedented pace.

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