Wiz’s CTO on PHP2Shell and the coming ‘vulnpocalypse’

2026-10-29 03:05 TechCrunch AI Theresa Loconsolo 约 8 分钟读完

Theresa Loconsolo

12:05 PM PDT · October 28, 2026

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The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems , with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the bugs, this is only the beginning, as AI changes how quickly novel vulnerabilities can be uncovered and exploited.

On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan talks with Tomer Schwartz , CTO of Exposure Management & AppSec at Google-owned Wiz, who was part of the scramble — alongside OpenAI, research group Calif, and the PHP team — to fix the bugs. On the show, Schwartz and Bellan get into what the race looked like from the inside, how early-stage startups can build with security in mind, and why patching by hand won’t scale.

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AI , CTO , cybersecurity , Equity Video , php , Security , Startups , wiz

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Theresa Loconsolo is an audio producer at TechCrunch focusing on Equity, the network’s flagship podcast. Before joining TechCrunch in 2022, she was one of 2 producers at a four-station conglomerate where she wrote, recorded, voiced and edited content, and engineered live performances and interviews from guests like lovelytheband. Theresa is based in New Jersey and holds a bachelors degree in Communication from Monmouth University.

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