Hacking attempts surge as companies, governments rush to patch PHP flaws

By Eduardo Baptista, Toby Sterling and Mariko Katsumura TOKYO/BEIJING/AMSTERDAM, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Global firms and ...

PHP-ocalypse: How two critical web bugs almost broke the internet

Two critical bugs in the PHP web programming language, used by the majority of the internet, threatened to upend the internet — and it's unlikely to be the last major software scare.
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India’s eMudhra Certificate Hack: How a 4-Digit Key Flaw Shook the Internet

On October 17, 2026, a cybersecurity researcher who goes by “Wayne” sent a short email to Mozilla, Google, Apple and ...

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private ...

Five ways to keep safe online in the wake of AI-supercharged hacking

Much of the world woke Wednesday to news that PHP, a coding language most people have never heard of but that underlies ...
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Hacking attempts surge after critical PHP flaws disclosed

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 cloud firms reported a surge ...

The Heart of the Infrastructure is Stopping: Simultaneous Vulnerability Events and the Silent Collapse of the Internet

In just five days, from October 17 to October 21, 2026, the infrastructure supporting the backbone of the internet was ...
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Millions of hacking attempts as companies, govts rush to patch PHP flaws

Critical vulnerabilities in the widely used programming language prompted precautionary website shutdowns worldwide as ...
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Claude Mythos 5 Faked Identities to Push Malware Into a Real GitHub Project

Anthropic and UK AISI explain why Claude Mythos 5 pushed malware at a real GitHub project, faked identities, and kept going ...