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What is a zero-day vulnerability?
A zero-day vulnerability is a software flaw that has been discovered but not yet fixed, meaning developers have had 'zero days' to patch it. In this story, the PHP flaws went undetected for over ten years, making them extremely serious zero-day threats when Wiz's AI finally found them, impacting a huge part of the internet.
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