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PHP2Shell: Laut Bund keine Hackerangriffe in der Schweiz bekannt

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Promoted from the source watch (oq9gflln), snapshot 20261022T181608Z. 5 new items in de: Watson (Keystone-SDA) reports the Swiss Federal Office for Cyber Security (BACS) knows of no attacks in Switzerland and has no reliable figures, but confirms PHP applications in the federal administration were affected.

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PHP2Shell: Laut Bund keine Hackerangriffe in der Schweiz bekannt

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

Watson (Keystone-SDA) reports the Swiss Federal Office for Cyber Security (BACS) knows of no attacks in Switzerland and has no reliable figures, but confirms PHP applications in the federal administration were affected. It names Basel-Stadt and Swiss universities as having gone offline, and cites dpa on German states, municipalities and hospitals going offline at the BSI's request, plus German MP Marc Henrichmann.

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agency: BACS said PHP-based applications in the Swiss federal administration were also affected and the responsible units were told to install updates quickly.

> Auch in der Bundesverwaltung seien PHP-basierte Anwendungen von den Schwachstellen betroffen gewesen. Die zuständigen Stellen seien informiert und zur raschen Installation der Sicherheitsupdates aufgefordert worden.

_Watch reader's translation:_ PHP-based applications in the federal administration were also affected by the vulnerabilities. The responsible units had been informed and asked to install the security updates quickly.

agency: BACS told Keystone-SDA it has no reliable figures on affected Swiss websites, shops or internal applications, and knows of no attacks in Switzerland so far.

> Belastbare Zahlen und Daten zu betroffenen Websites, Onlineshops oder internen Anwendungen liegen nicht vor, wie das Bundesamt für Cybersicherheit (BACS) am Donnerstag auf Anfrage der Nachrichtenagentur Keystone-SDA mitteilte.

_Watch reader's translation:_ Reliable figures and data on affected websites, online shops or internal applications are not available, the Federal Office for Cyber Security (BACS) told the news agency Keystone-SDA on Thursday.

offline: Websites in Switzerland shut down preventively on Wednesday include the cantonal sites of Basel-Stadt and online services of Swiss universities.

> so unter anderem die kantonalen Webseiten von Basel-Stadt sowie Online-Dienste von Schweizer Universitäten und Hochschulen.

_Watch reader's translation:_ including the cantonal websites of Basel-Stadt and online services of Swiss universities and colleges.

offline: Per dpa, several German federal states, municipalities, authorities, universities and hospitals took their websites temporarily offline at the BSI's request.

> Mehrere Bundesländer, Kommunen, Behörden, Universitäten und Spitäler hätten auf Aufforderung des deutschen Bundesamts für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik hin vorsorglich ihre Websites vorübergehend vom Netz genommen.

_Watch reader's translation:_ Several federal states, municipalities, authorities, universities and hospitals had, at the request of the German Federal Office for Information Security, temporarily taken their websites offline as a precaution.

official: Marc Henrichmann, chair of the German Bundestag's Parliamentary Control Panel for the intelligence services, called it one of the most serious security gaps of recent years.

> Der Vorsitzende des Parlamentarischen Kontrollgremiums für die deutsche Geheimdienste, Marc Henrichmann, sprach von der «ernstesten Sicherheitslücken der vergangenen Jahre».

_Watch reader's translation:_ The chair of the Parliamentary Control Panel for the German intelligence services, Marc Henrichmann, spoke of 'the most serious security gaps of recent years'.

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