Government websites and public services across Europe went offline this week as organizations responded to two newly disclosed PHP vulnerabilities. Germany took several federal websites offline, France temporarily shut down prefecture sites, Belgium’s foreign ministry disabled its websites, and organizations in the Netherlands pulled public-facing services as a precaution. It wasn’t confined to Europe, with countless other entities and businesses worldwide responding similarly. They were all waiting for a PHP vulnerability mitigation that didn’t exist yet. The cause was PHP2Shell...

Source: The New Stack