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Websites go dark worldwide as AI exposes critical security flaws

Global Published 21 October 2026, 21:59 · archived 21 Oct 2026

WASHINGTON: Government agencies and companies around the world shut down websites Wednesday after two critical flaws came to light involving PHP, a programming language that is the basis for a large share of the internet. The US National Security Agency told organizations to patch immediately or pull vulnerable systems offline. The flaws “often provide a direct path to the server’s file system or database,” the NSA said in a statement on X. Attackers could use them to take over web servers without needing a password. PHP sits underneath popular web design platforms so the weaknesses potentiall...

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