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

23.10.2026, 06:33

Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images — The emergency shutdowns of banking, airline, rail, tax and government services worldwide mark one of the most dramatic tests of the decades-old programming tools that keep the web running. Photo by Yui Mok/PA Images via Getty Images

The developers of PHP - a computing language like HTML and Python - released fixes on Wednesday.