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Global race to update computers as AI discovers most disruptive hack yet
More than two thirds of the world's websites are vulnerable to a hack that was first theorised in 2024, which AI has now made very real
Cybersecurity experts around the globe are racing to update systems and prevent the most disruptive AI -enabled hack yet discovered. A flaw uncovered in widely used code has made 70 per cent of websites worldwide vulnerable to data theft and defacement.
Government websites in France, Denmark, Finland and the Netherlands were taken offline as a precaution when the news emerged.
PHP is a computer language commonly used to power interactive websites, such as the content management system WordPress, which runs news sites and blogs; social networks like Facebook; and key reference tools like Wikipedia . The hack therefore affects websites, rather than individuals’ personal computers.
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