Global Web Outage: Critical PHP Flaws Force Pokémon Apps and Government Sites Offline
Two critical vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language have triggered a global wave of website shutdowns, including Pokémon Home, Champions, and Sleep. Discovered by AI, the flaws affect versions dating back to 2004 and allow remote code execution. With patches now available but not yet universally applied, governments and major platforms have taken services offline to prevent exploitation, impacting roughly 70% of the internet.