Indian organisations are scrambling to secure their systems after two critical vulnerabilities in PHP—the programming language powering 70% of the web—sparked a global cybersecurity panic. They are fast-tracking emergency response plans, pulling vulnerable applications offline, scanning websites for breaches and demanding urgent patches from their tech vendors, officials and industry executives said.
Banks have begun auditing applications for weaknesses, taking some non-critical services offline and preparing backups to divert traffic if parts of their websites or mobile applications experience downtime, according to executives.
