South Korea's IT and cybersecurity industries are urgently responding to a severe PHP vulnerability.

BlockBeats news, October 22, according to Yonhap News Agency, a critical security vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used programming language PHP, and South Korean information technology (IT) companies and the cybersecurity industry are urgently taking countermeasures.

It is estimated that about 110,000 internet assets in South Korea have installed PHP versions potentially affected by the vulnerability, ranking sixth globally. Therefore, relevant organizations urgently need to install security patches and check whether their systems have been compromised.

According to South Korea's IT and cybersecurity industry, as of now, no reported intrusions or suspected victim cases related to this vulnerability have been found.