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PHP-Lücke: Millionen Angriffsversuche im Netz - news.ORF.at

ORF · https://orf.at/stories/3445806/ · published not stated · added by curator@php.newsroom · slug orf-stories-3445806

Promoted from the source watch (oq9gflln), snapshot 20261022T181608Z. 6 new items in de: ORF reports Cloudflare's 'millions' of attack attempts and that institutions worldwide took sites offline. It names Austrian sites offline (Uni Wien, TU Wien, NÖN), quotes BSI vice-president Thomas Caspers and expert Chr

What it says, as the collector read it

PHP-Lücke: Millionen Angriffsversuche im Netz - news.ORF.at

Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault oq9gflln), page at/news/orf/stories-3445806, snapshot 20261022T181608Z. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in captures/20261022T181608Z/provenance.json. Publisher: ORF. Language: de. URL: https://orf.at/stories/3445806/

What the page says

_The watch reader's English summary (researcher@php.newsroom, languages pass of 22 October 2026), not the publisher's words:_

ORF reports Cloudflare's 'millions' of attack attempts and that institutions worldwide took sites offline. It names Austrian sites offline (Uni Wien, TU Wien, NÖN), quotes BSI vice-president Thomas Caspers and expert Christoph Fischer, CERT.at's warning coordinated with the new Federal Office for Cyber Security, and Anexia's CEO confirming attack attempts.

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offline: In Austria the websites of the University of Vienna, TU Wien and the newspaper NÖN were temporarily unreachable.

> In Österreich waren unter anderem die Websites der Uni Wien, TU Wien und der „Niederösterreichischen Nachrichten“ („NÖN“) vorübergehend nicht erreichbar.

_Watch reader's translation:_ In Austria, among others, the websites of the University of Vienna, TU Wien and the 'Niederösterreichische Nachrichten' ('NÖN') were temporarily unreachable.

offline: In Belgium the foreign ministry's website was offline; in the Netherlands the parliament website was also affected.

> In Belgien war unter anderem die Website des Außenministeriums offline. In den Niederlanden waren der digitale Identitätsdienst DigiD, die Parlamentswebsite und der Internetauftritt des nationalen Cybersicherheitszentrums betroffen.

_Watch reader's translation:_ In Belgium, among others, the foreign ministry's website was offline. In the Netherlands, the digital identity service DigiD, the parliament website and the website of the national cyber security centre were affected.

agency: CERT.at spread the warning in coordination with Austria's new Federal Office for Cyber Security, according to the Interior Ministry.

> In Österreich verbreitete unter anderem das nationale Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT.at), laut Innenministerium in Abstimmung mit dem neuen Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit, die Warnung

_Watch reader's translation:_ In Austria, the national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT.at), according to the Interior Ministry in coordination with the new Federal Office for Cyber Security, spread the warning

exploitation: The CEO of Austrian cloud provider Anexia, Alexander Windbichler, confirmed attack attempts on websites operated by Anexia and said bank data was not affected.

> Auch Windbichler bestätigte Angriffsversuche auf die von Anexia betriebenen Websites.

_Watch reader's translation:_ Windbichler also confirmed attack attempts on the websites operated by Anexia.

official: BSI vice-president Thomas Caspers warned consumers to expect attempts in coming days to install malware via compromised websites.

> Allerdings sollten Verbraucher darauf achten „und auch damit rechnen“, dass in den nächsten Tagen über möglicherweise kompromittierte Webseiten versucht werden könnte, „Schadgut auch auf ihren Systemen“ zu installieren, warnte BSI-Vizepräsidenten Thomas Caspers.

_Watch reader's translation:_ However, consumers should watch out 'and also expect' that in the coming days attempts could be made via possibly compromised websites to install 'malware on their systems too', warned BSI vice-president Thomas Caspers.

official: The BSI, alongside the NSA, said unprotected websites must be shut down immediately.

> müssten ungeschützte Websites nach Ansicht des US-Geheimdienstes National Security Agency (NSA) und des deutschen Bundesamts für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) sofort abgeschaltet werden.

_Watch reader's translation:_ unprotected websites must be shut down immediately in the view of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI).

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From the promotion queue (index/promote.json, priority 2): 6 new items in de: ORF reports Cloudflare's 'millions' of attack attempts and that institutions worldwide took sites offline. It names Austrian sites offline (Uni Wien, TU Wien, NÖN), quotes BSI vice-president Thomas Caspers and expert Chr

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