Security gap: "Millions" of hacker attempts: Many websites still offline
Hospitals, authorities and universities have precautionarily taken their websites offline. In many federal states, initial services are back online - but by far not all. What's behind it?
A global security vulnerability in the internet, caused by a critical weakness in the widely-used PHP programming language, continues to cause disruption worldwide. Matthew Prince, CEO of Cloudflare, reported "millions" of attempts by hackers to exploit the vulnerability. The German Federal Office for Information Technology Security (BSI) issued a cybersecurity warning, urging rapid installation of security updates to mitigate the threat.
Several German states, municipalities, authorities, universities, and hospitals temporarily took their websites offline as a precautionary measure, with some services resuming as early as the next morning.
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