In Mauritius, an IT Team Found Many PHP Versions End-of-Life
In Mauritius, IT administrator Loganaden Velvindron said his team was flat out once it realised how much software relies on PHP. Many PHP versions running are completely end-of-life, so the team has had to rebuild web apps and change code in some cases.
Despite warnings from Cloudflare and AWS that “millions of hacking attempts” were made every hour, there is no evidence of large-scale data breaches or cyber-attacks. One major firm issued a warning that hackers had a working proof of concept, then retracted it. AI was used to find the PHP flaws, which had been hidden from human researchers for decades.
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A blank breach scoreboard is not the same as a quiet internet. Warnings of millions of attempts an hour describe pressure, not proof of a break-in.
And one major firm had to retract its claim that hackers had a working proof of concept. In a panic, even the warning labels need checking.
The unsettling part is that AI found flaws human researchers missed for decades. The next incident may be an old bug with a new search engine.