Numerous PHP-powered websites temporarily went dark after an AI-assisted discovery of critical vulnerabilities
Numerous websites worldwide, including government-run pages, have temporarily gone dark following an AI-assisted discovery of critical vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language that powers roughly 70% of the web globally.
On Wednesday, the developers of the popular open-source programming language, which helps websites run and display content, issued an urgent security alert over “critical remote code execution vulnerabilities.” The flaws could allow hackers to take control of affected websites, prompting the release of urgent fixes, with all PHP users “strongly encouraged to update immediately.”
Multiple cybersecurity agencies worldwide, including the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity, the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, the Australian Signals Directorate, and the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security, issued their own alerts, advising users to apply the patches immediately and prioritize internet-facing systems.
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