Cloudflare sees millions of exploit attempts after PHP disclosure

Oct 21 (Reuters) Cloud services firm Cloudflare saw millions of exploitation attempts after the public disclosure of critical vulnerabilities in ​the widely used programming language PHP, CEO ‌Matthew Prince said in a post on X late on Wednesday. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the network we saw thousands of ‌attempts ​to exploit it. That jumped ⁠to tens of ⁠thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now, Prince said. Government websites in Europe and ​elsewhere went offline on Wednesday after the disclosure of vulnerabilities in PHP sent website ⁠operators around the world ⁠scrambling to protect their systems. Japanese lender ​Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group said it was temporarily suspending ​some internet services due to emergency measures. Developers ‌of the PHP programming language on Wednesday released urgent new fixes to vulnerabilities that had been lurking in their software for years ⁠until the