Organisations and businesses are urgently updating systems after critical vulnerabilities were discovered in the PHP programming language. The flaws, dubbed php2shell, allow unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute code on affected servers. The UK government took 32 services offline as a precaution, while Cloudflare reported millions of exploitation attempts. Cybersecurity experts warn that the full impact of the breach may take months to become apparent.
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