Handelsblatt: An IT Incident is Costly (Dr. Sven Herpig)

In German business media Handelsblatt, Dr. Sven Herpig, Lead Cybersecurity & Emerging Threats, addressed the cybersecurity implications surrounding the discovery of a major vulnerability in the PHP programming language. He downplayed claims that advances in artificial intelligence mark a fundamentally new era in cybersecurity, explaining that attackers have long utilized rapid reverse engineering of patches to target unupdated systems. While AI tools accelerate vulnerability discovery and reverse engineering—reducing analysis timelines from weeks to days or hours—Herpig emphasized that the threat landscape has already been severely strained for years, meaning AI accelerates existing trends rather than fundamentally changing the baseline risks.