Hacking attempts pass millions as PHP flaws force site outages

Firms and governments raced to patch critical PHP flaws on Thursday, and UK officials said they had seen no signs of successful hacks so far.

The PHP developers released fixes on Wednesday for critical flaws and urged users to update immediately.

Governments and companies in Japan, Finland, France and the Netherlands took sites or services offline as a precaution.

Cloudflare said it saw thousands of exploit attempts before the public announcement and millions afterwards.

Officials in the UK and Finland said they had no confirmed breaches, and Finland said the outages were not caused by exploitation.

Restoring services can take days or even weeks because systems must be updated and tested.

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