The PHP scripting language, which is widely used for website development, was recently revealed to have serious security flaws. At a time when governments and enterprises are stepping up downloading patches and suspending website services, hacker attacks using this vulnerability have surged to millions. Matthew Prince, CEO of American cloud service provider Claude Farr, posted on social networking platform X on the evening of the 21st that 10 hours before news of a security flaw in PHP was made public, the entire network discovered thousands of hacker attacks using this vulnerability; within 45 minutes after the news was posted, the number of such attacks increased to tens of thousands. “It went up to hundreds of thousands within two hours, and now there are millions.”

The PHP scripting language, which is widely used for website development, was recently revealed to have serious security flaws. At a time when governments and enterprises are stepping up downloading patches and suspending website services, hacker attacks using this vulnerability have surged to millions. Matthew Prince, CEO of American cloud service provider Claude Farr, posted on social networking platform X on the evening of the 21st that 10 hours before news of a security flaw in PHP was made public, the entire network discovered thousands of hacker attacks using this vulnerability; within 45 minutes after the news was posted, the number of such attacks increased to tens of thousands. “It went up to hundreds of thousands within two hours, and now there are millions.”