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Millions of hacking attempts as companies, governments rush to patch PHP flaws

Global Published 22 October 2026, 18:46 · archived 22 Oct 2026

TOKYO/BEIJING/AMSTERDAM: Global firms and governments rushed on Thursday to patch critical flaws in the PHP programming language that underpins much of the internet, as a cloud firm reported millions of hacking attempts after vulnerabilities were disclosed. The push came after governments in Europe and elsewhere took websites offline as a precaution on Wednesday while website operators scrambled to secure systems running the software. The emergency shutdowns of banking, airline, rail, tax and government services from Tokyo to Helsinki mark one of the most dramatic tests of the decades-old prog...

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