A person works on their laptop at a cafe in London, Britain, October 21, 2026Image source, Reuters
ByOsmond ChiaBusiness reporter
  • Published21 minutes ago

For more than a decade, serious flaws had gone undetected in technology underpinning much of the internet.

It took artificial intelligence (AI) to bring them to light and caused a global cyber-security alert.

The vulnerabilities lie within a programming language called PHP, which has been used internationally since the 2000s to build websites.

Governments and cyber-security agencies around the world scrambled to contain the fallout of this discovery on Wednesday, and have urged website operators to install a new emergency fix or consider taking their platforms offline.