Thirty-two government services go dark over a critical PHP cyber flaw as No 10 refuses to say which ones
Computer hackers, as Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince warned attackers were already probing the PHP vulnerability in the ten hours before its public disclosure, with around 70% of websites thought to be affected.
The Office for Budget Responsibility's website was among those pulled, days before next week's Budget, though a cabinet minister insists the Budget has not been compromised. Tech minister Baroness Lloyd of Effra told peers that OpenAI, whose AI uncovered the flaw, briefed the NCSC 'last week'. Four more services are partly down. No 10 insists 'this does not mean they were hacked'.
Cloudflare says PHP runs nearly 70 per cent of the world's websites.
Amazon was hit by repeated attacks before the warning's embargo had even expired.
