Governments, hospitals and companies around the world took some digital services offline this week after two vulnerabilities were identified in PHP, a programming language used by about 70% of websites.
The Atlantic reported millions of attempts had already been made to exploit the weaknesses. NPR said the flaws were found with AI technology and described them as severe. Hacker News reported that two security teams, one associated with Calif and another with Wiz, found the remote-code-execution bugs while using frontier AI models.
The PHP Foundation released two patches intended to address the vulnerabilities, according to NPR. Governments were rushing to put safety measures in place, the outlet reported.