{
  "id": 16012820,
  "title": "Security gap: \"Millions\" of hacker attempts: Many websites still offline",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/sicherheitslucke-millionen-hacker-versuche-viele-webseiten-noch",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-22T07:05:22.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Handelsblatt",
    "slug": "handelsblatt",
    "url": "https://www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-internet/sicherheitsluecke-millionen-hacker-versuche-viele-webseiten-noch-offline/100264109.html"
  },
  "original_language": "de",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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?",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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      {
        "outlet": "Handelsblatt",
        "title": "Internet security gap: \"Millions\" of hacker attempts: Many websites back online",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/sicherheitslucke-im-internet-millionen-hacker-versuche-viele",
        "published": "2026-10-22T12:03:53.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}