Exploitation Broadens

Public exploit code spreads faster than patching, especially across older PHP deployments at schools, local governments, charities and small businesses. The result is a wider but still mostly non-systemic outage wave, with cyber-defense stocks outperforming while hosting and web-platform names come under pressure.

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