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Breaking Down PHP2Shell with Sagi Tzadik & Thai Duong

October 21, 2026 · 36 min

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🚨 How AI just broke PHP (and 70% of the internet).On this episode of Crying Out Cloud, Amitai Cohen sits down with Sagi Tzadik (Wiz Research) and Thai Duong (Calif) to unpack a massive PHP RCE vulnerability discovered entirely by AI agents.This isn't just another zero-day story. It's a look at the terrifying new reality of "agentic exploit development." What used to take human researchers months of tedious lab setups and debugging to weaponize a memory corruption bug took AI agents a couple of weeks, working while the researchers slept.What's Inside:- How an AI model looking for a Drupal bug accidentally found a foundational PHP flaw from 2004.- Why AI scaling exploit development across multiple software versions changes the threat landscape.- The massive logistical challenge of coordinating a patch for 70% of the web alongside distros, WAFs, and cloud providers.- How defenders can use these same AI agents to scale detection engineering.

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