European and British authorities recommend taking websites offline until PHP flaws are fixed

European and British authorities recommend that websites temporarily go offline until severe vulnerabilities in PHP, a programming language that supports much of the internet, are fixed, according to NBC News.

The report describes the flaws as critical. Joshua Achiam, a researcher posting on X, reacted to the report with a joke about "stop the spread," and gave no further details on the flaws or the affected systems.