Emergency patching effort for software vulnerability affecting 70% of websites worldwide

Governments and major institutions worked through the night on intensive patching efforts due to a critical security vulnerability discovered with the help of artificial intelligence, which affects a programming language used in 70% of websites worldwide.

Following the discovery of the security vulnerability in question, many institutions deployed urgent security updates to protect their systems. As of Thursday, while the vast majority of government-owned websites were observed to be operating normally, intermittent outages or limited service access continued to be experienced on some platforms as security efforts persisted.