JUST IN: OpenAI launches global cybersecurity initiative called “Patch the Planet” after AI helped uncover critical flaws in PHP, a programming language powering millions of websites.

This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history. "Black October" they're calling it It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year* SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS: YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year): 1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline. 2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4. 3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status 4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers 5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down. 6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer 7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014 8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies 9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline 10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents): 11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up 12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites 13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested 14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers 15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations 16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls 17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline 18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen 19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites 20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor 21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets 22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins 23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached Also serious: 24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach 25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool 26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware 27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea

For those who don’t know: The majority of websites use php (~70%). For non-techies: Wordpress uses php. There is about to POSSIBLY be internet destruction like the world has never seen before.

🚨 High-severity Node.js flaw could allow remote code execution; CVE-2026-111497 Node.js has patched an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in its bundled Brotli decoder. ⠀ An attacker able to supply malicious Brotli-compressed data to an application could potentially corrupt memory and execute code on the underlying server. ⠀ Affected: • Node.js 22.x • Node.js 24.x • Node.js 26.x Fixed: • Node.js 22.23.4 • Node.js 24.22.1 • Node.js 26.12.1 ⠀ End-of-life Node.js versions may also be vulnerable and will not receive upstream security updates. Administrators should upgrade and restart affected services. Source: nodejs.org/en/blog/vulnerabi…

Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.

I work for a large international financial institution. There's been no communication regarding any of these vulnerabilities at all. Myself and the one other American member of my team were the only ones to even mention them. Not a peep from any of the offshore barnacles. Put your money under the mattress. We're all fucked.