I woke up to panicked text messages about the PHP attacks. As a cybersecurity expert, here are the 3 things I tell people to do right away.
A cybersecurity expert discusses the urgent response required for two major vulnerabilities discovered in the PHP programming language. He highlights how AI-driven tools have accelerated both the potential for exploitation and the need for rapid defensive measures.
Why it matters
PHP powers approximately 70% of websites globally, making these vulnerabilities a significant risk to internet infrastructure and business security.
Yonaton Keller is a product manager at Zafran Security and has been working on the exposed PHP vulnerabilities. Courtesy of Yonaton Keller PHP, the open-source computer programming language, had two major vulnerabilities exposed . Yonaton Keller woke on Wednesday to panicked messages about the two PHP vulnerabilities. He shares three steps you can take to protect your website. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Yonaton Keller, a 46-year-old product manager at Zafran Security, based in Tel Aviv. His words have been edited for length and clarity. When I woke up at 6:30 a.m. on Wednesday, I had multiple messages from around 4:45 a.m. alerting me that two vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language had been disclosed. I immediately understood that this was a very serious situation . Websites run different versions of PHP, and it's estimated that around 70% of websites worldwide use it.
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