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Matthew Prince

CEO, Cloudflare

Titles as the sources gave them. In 3 entries, with 3 checked quotations.

What they said

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“The next two years are going to be incredibly, incredibly, incredibly fraught with new tools that have infinite patience to go look for vulnerabilities across the Internet”
‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hackingThe Guardian, October 23, 2026. Speaking as: Other. As quoted by the source, not their own text. Matthew Prince in an X post, as quoted by The Guardian, on AI tools hunting for flaws.
“It wasn't that AI created the bug. AI found the bug that was there, and it's incredibly important that we've now found it, fixed it, and the software is significantly more secure because of the work that OpenAI did.”
Black October: why bugs discovered by OpenAI tech are creating a cyber emergencyAxios, October 22, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Prince answers the Bloomberg host's question whether AI found the flaws before attackers did.
“Literally, we're seeing millions of attempted, attacks using this flaw, now across all of our network, you know, every single minute of every single day.”
Black October: why bugs discovered by OpenAI tech are creating a cyber emergencyAxios, October 22, 2026. Speaking as: Other. Prince describes exploitation attempts against the PHP flaw seen on Cloudflare's network after it became public.

In the Base

Every entry they appear in.

  1. NewsAI Safety NewsletterMentioned

    AISN #84: AI-Driven Cybersecurity Issues Heighten Fears of “Hackpocalypse”

    The Center for AI Safety's newsletter reviews a run of serious cyber incidents in October, including emergency PHP patches and AI-assisted attacks, and reports worries about a possible "hackpocalypse". It also lists other news on government, industry and civil society.

  2. NewsThe GuardianSpeaks

    ‘Black October’: cybersecurity experts sound the alarm over new era of AI-enabled hacking

    The Guardian reports that tech and security executives, including Sam Altman, Jason Clinton and Matthew Prince, expect AI to expose many more flaws like the PHP bugs announced on 21 October, and that exploitation attempts began quickly.

  3. NewsAxiosSpeaks

    Black October: why bugs discovered by OpenAI tech are creating a cyber emergency

    Axios reports that flaws in PHP, which it says runs millions of websites, were found with help from OpenAI technology, and that patches released on Oct. 21 sent governments and companies offline briefly. In a Bloomberg Tech interview, OpenAI's Greg Brockman and Cloudflare's Matthew Prince describe the discovery and the attacks since.