Two Serious PHP Vulnerabilities Disrupt Government Services and Trigger Millions of Hacking Attempts

Two serious security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in PHP, the programming language used by roughly 70% of websites worldwide. They were discovered with the help of artificial intelligence, and official patches have been released for both. Governments and companies rushed to update, while Britain announced that 32 government services had been halted and 4 partially disrupted.

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• Britain announced that 32 government services had been halted and 4 partially disrupted due to PHP vulnerabilities.

  «أعلنت بريطانيا توقف 32 خدمة حكومية وتعطل 4 جزئياً، بسبب ثغرات في لغة البرمجة PHP.»

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• Downing Street said that Britain's major essential public services had not been affected, but some "limited" government websites were temporarily suspended.

  «No 10 said no large UK public-facing critical services have been affected, but some ‘limited’ Government websites have temporarily gone dark.»

  content.api.pressassociation.io on MSN
• A cloud company reported millions of hacking attempts since the disclosure of the critical vulnerabilities.

  «A cloud firm says millions of hacking attempts have been made since critical vulnerabilities were revealed»

  ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
• In Canada, several government websites, including that of the Statistics agency, remained offline on Thursday morning.

  «Several government websites were still down Thursday morning at the same time a worldwide coding vulnerability has opened the door to millions of reported hack attempts.»

  Global News on MSN
• Governments and companies worked through the night to update software to close the vulnerability discovered with the help of artificial intelligence.

  «Governments and corporations worked throughout the night to update software.»

  PBS

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