Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued

AI agents uncovered critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHP, software used by roughly 70% of the internet. Government and other websites went offline worldwide as organizations applied an emergency security patch. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre and other bodies coordinated the global response.

Source: Websites taken down worldwide as critical cyber-security update issued — BBC

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