CyBUr Smart Morning News Update - October 22, 2026

If I can bring it up here.

Yep, there we go.

So this is from theregister.com and this is Lindsay Clark reporting.

This was big in the news yesterday because of the scare headlines that all the websites in the world are going to go down because of this.

But PHP developers have released emergency...

I do that every time on this.

I'm sorry.

Have released emergency updates for two critical vulnerabilities after cybersecurity authorities warned organizations to patch immediately or consider taking exposed applications online.

This article lists out two particular vulnerabilities, which had a nine plus severity rate, which is pretty bad.

John Knott, head of threat intelligence at Watchtower, said, as expected, Watchtower Intel is already observing in the wild exploitation of the latest PHP vulnerabilities with a variety of vibe coded POCs already hitting our sensors featuring a variety of user agents and so on and so forth.

So where immediate patching is not feasible, organizations should consider isolating Internet facing applications from public networks until a fix is available.

So if you're using PHP for your website, for things on your website and you have not patched this vulnerability, this is something you need to do almost immediately because bad actors are already figuring out how to utilize it.

There's more information in this if you want.

I'm sorry, it does say that the vulnerabilities rating is a 9.2, which is pretty bad.

But I would say, if you look at the headlines, it says, ooh, vulnerability, 70% of websites are going to go down.

They're just vulnerable.

It doesn't mean they're going to go down, but they're vulnerable to attack.

So it's going to take a while for bad actors to find all of them, but...

There it is.

And again, this goes back to things we've talked about.

I've talked about constantly in the years I've been doing this podcast that patching is one of the key things you have to do.

And if you don't have the people in place to do it, then it creates your vulnerability.

Go back again to the French supermarkets that got hit with the refrigerator vulnerability and caused millions of euros of damage to produce over there.

All right.