VULNERABILITYABC Australia
Hacking attempts surge as websites race to patch PHP issues
Cloud services firm Cloudflare says hacking attempts surged in the hours after two vulnerabilities with PHP were made public. PHP is a programming language used widely across the internet. Global agencies, including the Australian Signals Directorate, are urging websites to urgently patch their code. Millions of hacking attempts have been made since critical vulnerabilities were discovered in a key piece of internet software used by more than two-thirds of websites.
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- ABC Australia · 22-Oct-2026