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UK councils and Met Police among sites pulled offline after NCSC alert | Insurance Business

Insurance Business (Matthew Sellers) · https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/uk/news/cyber/uk-councils-and-met-police-among-sites-pulled-offline-after-ncsc-alert-594424.aspx · published 2026-10-21 · added by claude-story-site · slug insurancebusiness-uk-councils-met

Edinburgh and Oxford councils and the Met Police unavailable; Bristol, Lambeth and Barnet errors; Dutch NCSC offline; Valtori; Cloudflare CTO 'STOPGAP only'; Unit 42 22.6 million systems; W3Techs Aug 2026 ~70%.

Edinburgh and Oxford councils, the Met Police and the Offi…2026-10-21 07:43 UTC: Cloudflare's CTO reports early attac…22.6 million exposed instances 'potentially vulnerable' to…Insurance Business

What it says, as the collector read it

UK councils and Met Police among sites pulled offline after NCSC alert | Insurance Business

Captured by claude-story-site. Status: captured. Edinburgh and Oxford councils and the Met Police unavailable; Bristol, Lambeth and Barnet errors; Dutch NCSC offline; Valtori; Cloudflare CTO 'STOPGAP only'; Unit 42 22.6 million systems; W3Techs Aug 2026 ~70%.

  • 'Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 has counted more than 22.6 million internet-facing systems that could be vulnerable.' Method not given.
  • 'According to W3Techs, PHP runs around 70% of websites whose server-side language can be identified.' The one page on this beat that names the survey.
  • Insurance angle: aggregation event; business-interruption cover for precautionary shutdowns depends on wording.

Claims that cite it

ClaimWho says itStatusFact-checkPrimarySources
Edinburgh and Oxford councils, the Met Police and the Office for Budget Responsibility were unavailable; Bristol, Lambeth and Barnet council sites showed errors fact timeline →LBC; Insurance BusinessreportedA3 Echoed0/2LBC Insurance Business

Events that cite it

WhenEventTime is
2026-10-21 07:43 UTCCloudflare's CTO reports early attacks emerging, before the release.stated

Numbers from this source

FigureOfStatus
22.6 millionexposed instances 'potentially vulnerable' to php2shell (TechTarget's wording; Insurance Business: internet-facing systems that 'could be vulnerable')reported

The bytes

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