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Japan to set up AI hacker team as PHP flaws knock services offline

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Japan plans to create a team of ethical hackers that will use AI to attack the country’s own systems and find vulnerabilities before criminals can exploit them. The announcement comes as banks, rail operators and government agencies take online services offline to patch two critical flaws in PHP, a…

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  1. 2026-10-23 08:28 · The Next Web
    Japan to set up AI hacker team as PHP flaws knock services offline

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