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Security researchers used AI tools to help uncover years-old vulnerabilities in the PHP web scripting language. Then the AI-assisted attacks began.

Tổ chức phi lợi nhuận hỗ trợ ngôn ngữ PHP, nền tảng của khoảng 70% website toàn cầu, đang trong tình trạng thiếu nhân lực trầm trọng.

Websites across the world went offline this week after the disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in the widely used programming language.

(서울=연합뉴스) 권하영 기자 = 전 세계 웹사이트에서 널리 쓰이는 프로그래밍 언어 'PHP'의 치명적 보안 취약점을 악용해 대규모 사이버 공격...

(서울=연합뉴스) 오지은 기자 = 전 세계 웹사이트의 상당수가 사용하는 프로그래밍 언어 'PHP'에서 치명적인 보안 취약점이 드러나면서 글로벌 ...

The discovery and fixing of critical flaws in PHP, a major programming language, should be considered a boon for the cybersecurity industry, says Dave Lee for Bloomberg Opinion.

O que é PHP e a falha grave de segurança detectada por IA que tirou sites do ar O Japão anunciou nesta sexta-feira (23) que criará uma equipe para simular ataques cibernéticos com inteligência artificial (IA) e identificar falhas em sistemas tecnológicos. 🗒️ Tem alguma sugestão de reportagem? Envie para o g1 A medida ocorre em meio a uma onda de ataques que

A bug in the PHP programming language could put up to 70% of the world's websites at risk, experts say. Reuters cybersecurity reporter Raphael Satter explains more about this critical vulnerability.

Het regent vragen over cyberveiligheid sinds de kwetsbaarheden in de programmeertaal PHP bekend werden. Via het PHP-lek zouden servers en websites kunnen worden overgenomen en misbruikt. Ook in een deurbel met camera, een slimme wasmachine of een robotstofzuiger kan PHP zitten, waarschuwt het Nationaal Cyber Security Center (NCSC). Denk na of het wel nodig i

Governments and businesses around the globe are scrambling to contain the fallout after the PHP vulnerabilities leaked online.

<p>The British government advised the public on Friday to keep three days of emergency supplies at home, a message it said had been hammered home by this week’s <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2038808">PHP software glitch</a>, as well as a record-setting summer of heat, drought and wildfires.</p> <p>Governments and businesses worldwide have rushed to secu

<p>The British government advised the public on Friday to keep three days of emergency supplies at home, a message it said had been hammered home by this week’s <a href="https://www.dawn.com/news/2038808">PHP software glitch</a>, as well as a record-setting summer of heat, drought and wildfires.</p> <p>Governments and businesses worldwide have rushed to secu

Die IT-Systeme des Bundes haben die PHP-Sicherheitslücke nach Einschätzung des Innenministeriums unbeschadet überstanden. Die Gefahr sei rechtzeitig erkannt worden.

<img style="float: right" src="https://i.ds.at/68okvw/rs:fill:150:0/plain/lido-images/2026/10/23/a72e6d29-0658-414d-981b-f5443bf07932.jpg">Die Spuren der aktuellen Lücken gehen bis ins Jahr 2020 zurück, seit 2024 ist man an der Behebung gescheitert. KI macht all die alten Probleme nun viel gefährlicher

<img style="float: right" src="https://i.ds.at/68okvw/rs:fill:150:0/plain/lido-images/2026/10/23/a72e6d29-0658-414d-981b-f5443bf07932.jpg">Die Spuren der aktuellen Lücken gehen bis ins Jahr 2020 zurück, seit 2024 ist man an der Behebung gescheitert. KI macht all die alten Probleme nun viel gefährlicher

O que é PHP e a falha grave de segurança detectada por IA que tirou sites do ar A Fundação PHP, responsável pela linguagem de programação de mesmo nome, confirmou que os primeiros sinais da falha de segurança que levou à retirada preventiva de sites do ar pelo mundo foram identificados em 2024. Em nota, a entidade atribuiu o atraso na correção à falta de rec

Die IT-Sicherheitsfirma Censys scannt PHP-Server auf für php2shell anfällige Versionen. Millionen in Deutschland sind noch verwundbar.

IT and cyber experts have told the BBC about their struggles in the last 48 hours to update their systems.

<img style="float: right" src="https://i.ds.at/bbX-bg/rs:fill:150:0/plain/lido-images/2026/10/23/ec1f325a-4769-4004-86a1-61b81b20626b.jpg">Zugangsdaten für Programmierschnittstellen und Web Application Firewalls erneuern. In Österreich sind bisher keine erfolgreichen Angriffe bekannt

Σοβαρές ευπάθειες σε μία από τις πιο διαδεδομένες γλώσσες προγραμματισμού του διαδικτύου, την PHP, πυροδότησαν διεθνή κινητοποίηση για την κυβερνοασφάλεια. Οι αδυναμίες, που παρέμεναν αδιάγνωστες επί χρόνια, θα μπορούσαν υπό συγκεκριμένες συνθήκες να επιτρέψουν σε χάκερ να αποκτήσουν τον έλεγχο διακομιστών και να υποκλέψουν ευαίσθητα δεδομένα. Η τεχνητή νοημ

Das Bundesdigitalministerium stuft den Sicherheitsvorfall um PHP als kritisch ein. Laut Staatssekretär Markus Richter wird derzeit geprüft, ob Daten abgeflossen sind.

Eine Sicherheitslücke in der Skriptsprache PHP hat weltweit Besorgnis ausgelöst. Dabei ist der Vorfall noch glimpflich abgelaufen. Künftig wird es vermehrt solche Grossereignisse geben – mit womöglich schlimmeren Folgen.

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TOKYO/BEIJING/AMSTERDAM, Oct 22 (Reuters)&nbsp;-&nbsp;Global firms and governments rushed on Thursday to patch critical flaws in the&nbsp;PHP&nbsp;programming language that underpins much of the internet, as&nbsp;cloud firms&nbsp;reported&nbsp;a surge of&nbsp;hacking attempts after&nbsp;the&nbsp;vulnerabilities were disclosed.

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(샌프란시스코=연합뉴스) 권영전 특파원 = 인터넷 핵심 프로그래밍 언어인 PHP의 보안 취약점이 공개되기 최소 나흘 전부터 관련 공격이 시작된 ...

There were few, if any, reports of widespread damage by hackers exploiting PHP flaws, experts said, one day after officials warned of severe vulnerabilities.

In Nederland was woensdag meteen veel aandacht voor de kwetsbaarheden in de programmeertaal PHP, terwijl de media-aandacht in het buitenland kleiner bleef. Het is lastig om dat verschil te duiden, al spelen eerdere grote hacks in Nederland ongetwijfeld een rol.

Amazon says hackers tried to exploit a bug in the PHP programming language just days before the vulnerability was publicly disclosed. Kurzweil Technologies head of research John Clark Levin explains more.

Hackers attempted to exploit the PHP flaws impacting sites across the web days before they were patched, according to a report from Amazon Threat Intelligence. CJ Moses, Amazon chief information security officer, writes that the company's security team found a PHP2Shell exploit attempt on October 17th through a monitoring system designed to bait hackers, as

Millionen Cyberattacken binnen weniger Stunden: Die PHP-Sicherheitslücke hat weltweit Besorgnis ausgelöst. Viele Internetseiten sind noch immer nicht erreichbar - und Kriminelle versuchen weiter, die Lücke auszunutzen.

A critical security flaw in the programming language underpinning much of the web has prompted a global rush to patch vulnerable systems.

Het Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) heeft signalen gekregen dat inmiddels misbruik is gemaakt van het grote lek in programmeertaal PHP. "We zien pogingen om de kwetsbaarheden te misbruiken en we krijgen de eerste signalen binnen dat dat met succes gebeurt", zegt een woordvoerder. Eerder zei het NCSC dergelijke signalen nog niet te zien. Het NCSC advi

Unvorsichtige Kommunikation, eine ignorierte Sperrfrist und mit KI bewaffnete Hacker haben zu einem Cybersicherheits-Desaster geführt. Rekonstruktion eines hektischen IT-Tages.

Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.

Two vulnerabilities found in the programming language PHP put enormous swaths of the internet in danger. By some accounts, up to 70 percent of websites use PHP in some capacity. It powers Wikipedia, WordPress, Drupal, and a host of other popular sites and platforms, including DeviantArt and 4Chan, which were temporarily shut down after the […]

AI was used to uncover a security weakness that affects most of the world's websites, researchers said. Here's what internet users should know.

Eine Sicherheitslücke gefährdet Millionen Server im Internet. Welche Rolle spielt KI bei der PHP-Krise? Und: Markus Söders Vorschlag einer »Extremismusklausel«

Sämtliche PHP-Versionen der letzten 20 Jahre sind durch zwei Sicherheitslücken gefährdet. Updates einzuspielen ist das einzig wirksame Mittel.

<img src="https://www.srf.ch/static/cms/images//320ws/24897e.webp" hspace="5" align="left" >Die Lücke betrifft 70 Prozent des Internets. User kommen laut Digitalredaktor Tschirren fast täglich mit PHP in Kontakt.

De nombreux sites à travers le monde sont en maintenance et donc inaccessibles, après la découverte de deux failles majeures, baptisées « PHP2Shell », qui affectent le langage PHP, utilisé à grande échelle sur le Web.

The Canadian government’s chief information officer says there’s no sign a massive global website coding vulnerability has led to federal information being compromised.

A cloud firm says millions of hacking attempts have been made since critical vulnerabilities were revealed in software used on 70 per cent of the world's websites.

<img src="https://www.srf.ch/static/cms/images//320ws/93b345.webp" hspace="5" align="left" >Eine Vielzahl von Websites wurde sicherheitshalber vom Netz genommen. Der Bund hat noch keine Angriffe festgestellt.

Une faille critique dans PHP, le langage informatique qui fait tourner environ 70 % des sites web, a poussé des milliers d’entre eux à se mettre hors ligne. Mais ce qui inquiète le plus est son origine : la faille a été repérée par des intelligences artificielles, avant que les experts ne la détectent. Les correctifs se poursuivent, mais des spécialistes pré

Websites die gebruikmaken van programmeertaal PHP en nog niet de benodigde veiligheidsupdate hebben doorgevoerd blijven kwetsbaar. Updaten is noodzakelijk, benadrukt PHP.

Websites die gebruikmaken van programmeertaal PHP en nog niet de benodigde veiligheidsupdate hebben doorgevoerd blijven kwetsbaar. Updaten is noodzakelijk, benadrukt PHP.

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Selbst Regierungen schalten ihre Websites ab: Die Schwachstelle PHP2Shell bedroht fast das ganze Internet. Experten fürchten eine KI-Sicherheitsapokalypse.

Van DigiD tot de Franse overheid, en van RTL Nieuws tot Schiphol. Sites van allerlei instanties gingen gisteren een paar uur offline. Er zaten lekken in PHP, een taal om sites te programmeren. Doordat die lekken op straat lagen, waren de sites kwetsbaar voor hackers. En dus was het veiliger om websites even uit de lucht te halen. Wat zegt dit lek over de kwe

O que é PHP e a falha grave de segurança detectada por IA que tirou sites do ar A Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel) e tribunais suspenderam, por precaução, o uso do Sistema Eletrônico de Informações (SEI), plataforma de processos administrativos, após a identificação de duas falhas graves de segurança no PHP. 🔎 O PHP é uma das linguagens de prog

The vulnerability allows a hacker to change a website or extract data, including personal information.

Servers that use the popular PHP programming language were exposed to a critical security bug. Millions of websites have their data at risk.

Governments and businesses around the world scrambled to prevent hackers from exploiting a vulnerability in PHP, a popular programming language.

Schwere Sicherheitslücken in Millionen Servern haben Firmen, Behörden und Privatleute alarmiert. Jetzt wird bekannt, dass Informationslecks für den Unfall verantwortlich sind. Wie groß die Schäden werden, ist noch offen.