Global Tech Race Underway After AI Discovers Major PHP Security Vulnerabilities
· Technology · New Scientist, Al Jazeera, BBC News
Artificial intelligence has enabled researchers to discover critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, triggering a global cybersecurity response. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, affect more than two thirds of the world's websites. In response, the PHP team released immediate security patches and urged operators to update systems without delay. Government cybersecurity agencies worldwide, including India's CERT-In and the US National Security Agency, issued urgent warnings regarding the flaws. Some organizations temporarily took websites offline while scrambling to apply the necessary security fixes.
Why it matters
Website operators and hosting providers worldwide must patch their servers immediately to prevent hackers from executing malicious code on vulnerable systems.
Read the original report — New Scientist
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