Alerta de PHP: por qué gobiernos, hospitales y colegios desconectan sus webs

Alerta de PHP: por qué gobiernos, hospitales y colegios desconectan sus webs

Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault oq9gflln), page es/news/20minutos/tecnologia-ciberseguridad-por-que-gobiernos-hospitales-coleg, snapshot 20261022T181608Z. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in captures/20261022T181608Z/provenance.json. Publisher: 20Minutos. Language: es. URL: https://www.20minutos.es/tecnologia/ciberseguridad/por-que-gobiernos-hospitales-colegios-desconectan-webs-alerta-php_7051888_0.html

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20minutos explains why European governments, hospitals and schools disconnected their sites. It cites an EU joint statement, a warning from BSI vice-president Thomas Caspers, and a detailed (EFE-sourced) list of Belgian shutdowns: the Flemish government, federal ministries, Smartschool, VRT, Antwerp hospitals and vdk bank. It also covers Germany's Charité and Spain's INCIBE critical notice.

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agency: A joint communiqué from the European Commission, ENISA, CERT-EU, Europol and the EU CSIRTs network advised considering disconnection of exposed applications that cannot be patched.

> la Comisión Europea, ENISA, CERT-EU, Europol y la red europea de equipos de respuesta aconsejan en su comunicado conjunto considerar la desconexión de las aplicaciones expuestas a internet hasta poder corregirlas.

_Watch reader's translation:_ the European Commission, ENISA, CERT-EU, Europol and the European network of response teams advise in their joint communiqué considering disconnecting internet-exposed applications until they can be fixed.

official: BSI vice-president Thomas Caspers warned that large-scale exploitation within hours of the patch release was likely (via EFE).

> “Consideramos probable que se produzca un aprovechamiento a gran escala y a corto plazo, en las pocas horas siguientes a la publicación de las actualizaciones de seguridad”.

_Watch reader's translation:_ "We consider it likely that large-scale exploitation will occur in the short term, within the few hours following the publication of the security updates."

offline: The Flemish government ordered its PHP-based official websites taken down, including the regional Parliament portal; federal FPS Foreign Affairs, Finance and Employment sites also went down.

> el Gobierno flamenco ordenó retirar temporalmente sus webs oficiales que funcionan con PHP. La medida alcanzó al portal del Parlamento regional y coincidió con la desconexión de páginas de los servicios públicos federales de Asuntos Exteriores, Finanzas y Empleo.

_Watch reader's translation:_ the Flemish government ordered the temporary withdrawal of its official PHP-based websites. The measure reached the regional Parliament portal and coincided with the disconnection of pages of the federal public services for Foreign Affairs, Finance and Employment.

offline: School platform Smartschool and public broadcaster VRT's sites were unavailable in Belgium.

> Las familias también encontraron inaccesible Smartschool, la plataforma que utilizan los colegios para comunicarse con padres y alumnos. Varias webs de medios de comunicación, entre ellas las de la radiotelevisión pública flamenca VRT, quedaron igualmente fuera de servicio

_Watch reader's translation:_ Families also found Smartschool, the platform schools use to communicate with parents and pupils, inaccessible. Several media websites, including those of the Flemish public broadcaster VRT, were likewise out of service

offline: Two Antwerp hospitals (AZ Monica and university hospital UZA) took their sites down; vdk bank took its corporate site down while online banking continued.

> Dos hospitales de Amberes, AZ Monica y el universitario UZA, retiraron sus páginas. El banco vdk bank hizo lo mismo con su web corporativa, aunque aseguró que la banca electrónica continuaba funcionando.

_Watch reader's translation:_ Two Antwerp hospitals, AZ Monica and the university hospital UZA, took down their pages. The bank vdk bank did the same with its corporate website, although it said online banking continued to work.

agency: The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium said it had no knowledge of actual incidents in the country at that time.

> el Centro para la Ciberseguridad de Bélgica precisó que, en ese momento, no tenía constancia de incidentes reales en el país.

_Watch reader's translation:_ the Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium specified that, at that time, it had no record of actual incidents in the country.

offline: In the Netherlands, the Parliament and MijnOverheid went offline alongside DigiD; in Germany administrations, universities and hospitals including Charité did too.

> En Países Bajos, las desconexiones preventivas afectaron al Parlamento, al portal gubernamental MijnOverheid y a DigiD

_Watch reader's translation:_ In the Netherlands, the preventive disconnections affected Parliament, the government portal MijnOverheid and DigiD

agency: Spain's INCIBE issued a critical-importance notice urging updates and, if not possible, isolation of exposed systems from public networks.

> En España, el Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad (Incibe) también ha emitido un aviso de importancia crítica y ha pedido instalar las actualizaciones cuanto antes.

_Watch reader's translation:_ In Spain, the National Cybersecurity Institute (Incibe) has also issued a critical-importance notice and has asked for updates to be installed as soon as possible.

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