Firms Race to Fix Widespread Cyber Flaw Before Hackers Break In
More than a third of the 22 million vulnerable and internet-exposed systems are running legacy software that can’t be patched.
Governments and companies around the world rushed to patch two critical flaws in widely used technology, keeping some websites offline as a precaution against hackers trying to use the flaws for cybercrime.
Banks, airlines and governments across Europe, Asia and the Americas on October 22 pulled down websites to avoid being hacked through vulnerabilities in an open-source programming language that underpins huge swaths of the internet.
Artificial intelligence models helped find the vulnerabilities in PHP that could expose users to cyberattacks. Organizations started taking their websites offline on October 21 as a precaution, after researchers disclosed the flaws, resulting in national cybersecurity agencies urging firms to install available fixes to mitigate the risk of hacking.
Governments and organizations in countries including Austria, the Netherlands, Finland, France, Denmark, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan and Belgium were among those to pull websites offline on Wednesday as they worked to implement fixes. In the U.S., the White House was also engaged with U.S. federal agencies and critical infrastructure firms on the issue.
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