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Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued
International agencies are urging organizations to patch two critical security vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, which powers a large share of the internet. The flaws were discovered with the help of advanced AI tools and had gone undetected for more than a decade. Finland has temporarily shut down its government public web services, the Netherlands has taken its cyber-security agency site offline, and Edinburgh council along with several BBC programme pages have become inaccessible. Cyber-security firm Wiz called the flaws the most severe vulnerabilities ever found by AI and estimated roughly seventy percent of the internet is affected. The US National Security Agency advised organizations to take systems offline if they could not immediately apply the fix. Security researchers warn that early attacks are already emerging, and the immediate challenge is locating every hidden instance of PHP running beneath websites, hosting platforms and third-party products.
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Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued
International agencies are urging organizations to patch two critical security vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, which powers a large share of the internet. The flaws were discovered with the help of advanced AI tools and had gone undetected for more than a decade. Finland has temporarily shut down its government public web services, the Netherlands has taken its cyber-security agency site offline, and Edinburgh council along with several BBC programme pages have become inaccessible. Cyber-security firm Wiz called the flaws the most severe vulnerabilities ever found by AI and estimated roughly seventy percent of the internet is affected. The US National Security Agency advised organizations to take systems offline if they could not immediately apply the fix. Security researchers warn that early attacks are already emerging, and the immediate challenge is locating every hidden instance of PHP running beneath websites, hosting platforms and third-party products.