GoKawiilUK pulls dozens of government services offline after critical PHP flaws found
Developers of the widely used PHP programming language disclosed critical security vulnerabilities this week, prompting websites worldwide to go offline as organisations rushed to patch systems. The UK government confirmed 32 services were unavailable and four partially unavailable as a precaution, with ministers saying no major public-facing critical services were affected and no breaches have been confirmed.
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PHP underpins a huge share of websites built over decades, so flaws in it could expose a vast number of systems if left unpatched, according to researchers. The National Cyber Security Centre's description of the event as 'unprecedented' suggests the scale of disruption is unusually broad, though officials say no successful attacks have yet been confirmed and effects may only become clear over time.
- Critical vulnerabilities were found in PHP, a backend language used across the web for decades
- 32 UK government services went offline and four were partially affected as a precaution
- Officials and the NCSC report no confirmed successful hacks so far, but warn impact could take months to assess
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