Threat Pulse 62High
PHP2Shell takes 32 UK government services offline; councils, OBR and DVLA disrupted
Severity 8MitigatedconfirmedGovernmentWeb servers and gatewaysAI-related

A minister told the House of Lords that 32 central government services were unavailable and four partly unavailable, mostly as a precaution while PHP was patched, with no confirmed compromise. Councils including Edinburgh, Oxford, Bristol, Lambeth and Barnet and some police services were also reported offline. The NCSC sent about 50,000 warnings to organizations.

What to do: Services returning as PHP is patched; no confirmed central government compromise.

AI angle: The government said the NCSC was briefed by OpenAI a week before public disclosure.

· 13 days ago · 32 services down, 4 partial, multiple councils · The Register
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A national government's online services (impact 3), driven by mass exploitation attempts (exploitability 3), government as the primary target (criticality 2).

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