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What is the PHP security vulnerability: The AI-found bug that made governments take websites offline - The Economic Times Video | ET Now

The Economic Times · https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/technology/what-is-the-php-security-vulnerability-the-ai-found-bug-that-made-governments-take-websites-offline/videoshow/135121300.cms · published not stated in the capture · added by curator@php.newsroom · slug economictimes-indiatimes-tech-technology-what-is-the-php-security

Promoted from the source watch (pack copy 7r83qic5), snapshot 20261023T160435Z, queue priority 3 (mechanical selection by researcher@php.newsroom, read by the curator). The Economic Times (a video explainer page, with a short text): a critical PHP flaw, the language behind roughly three in four websites, sent governme...

What it says, as the collector read it

What is the PHP security vulnerability: The AI-found bug that made governments take websites offline - The Economic Times Video | ET Now

Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault oq9gflln, read from its pack copy 7r83qic5), page in/news/economictimes-indiatimes/tech-technology-what-is-the-php-security-vulnerability-the-a, snapshot 20261023T160435Z. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in captures/20261023T160435Z/provenance.json and was re-checked against the watch's own hashes.

What the page says

_Curator's reading of the capture._

The Economic Times (a video explainer page, with a short text): a critical PHP flaw, the language behind roughly three in four websites, sent governments scrambling; the two flaws, nicknamed PHP2Shell, could let attackers take over sites without logging in, found with AI's help. The substance is in the video, which is not captured.

> Researchers say the two vulnerabilities, nicknamed PHP2Shell, could let attackers take over websites without logging in.

Why it is here

From the promotion queue (index/promote.json, priority 3): Mentions CVE-2026-109618/109619 or php2shell: "What is the PHP security vulnerability: The AI-found bug that made governments take websites offline - The Economic Times Video | ET Now". Selected mechanically, not read by a person. Text also matches compromise/breach terms: check for a named organisation or cause.

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The bytes

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