PHP crisis: What you need to do as the world panics about AI cyber attacks

This week, the world was plunged into panic after a major vulnerability was found in the code that runs the internet – and warnings that it is just the beginning.

On Wednesday, security experts announced that a vulnerability had been found in PHP, a programming language that powers some 70 per cent of all websites. The bug would let hackers easily break into websites, and so businesses and governments scrambled to fix it.