Black October: Tech companies around the world to government agencies are very worried at this time. In the last days of the month of October, cybersecurity cases are coming to light continuously one after another. First, flaws were found in the website making programming language PHP, now questions are also being raised on the security system of Indian certificate, issuing company eMudhara. Apart from this, news has come to light about the data leak of the thousands of SBI users, while cloud platform Railway has also expressed apprehension of a data breach.

Hacking Gang Targeted Companies Around the World
Microsoft revealed that a China-linked hacking group targeted hundreds of organizations around the world with the help of AI. Apart from this there are also reports  of several government websites of North Korea being disrupted. However, no connection between these incidents has come to light. But these incidents have raised many serious qusetions regarding cyber secuity. From this, it has also become clear that, passwords and antivirus are not enough for internet security.

Hacking Attempts Increased in PHP Programming Language
PHP is used worldwide to build websites and web applications; Many websites and online systems around the world are running on its support. But now this news has also come to light that two serious flaws have been found in the PHP programming language. Taking advantage of these flaws cyber hackers are running their code on vulnerable servers without logging in. Due to this, a threat of data theft present on the server  and several services being disrupted is being created. Owing to these flaws, cyber security agencies of many countries have advised organizations to update immediately.

Weaknesses of eMudhra Increased India's Concern
The matter of digital certificates related to Indian digital company eMudhra has come to light as big news around the world.  Digital certificates help confirm the identity of a website on the internet. Browsers verify through these whether a secure connection is linking to the correct  website or not. According to the company due to some technical lapse in the key generation process on April 30, 2025, along with a strong key, a seconf set of weak Key was created and the weak key reached the browsers trust system. If this key were misused, cyber hackers could try to make fake digital certificates. Google has taken steps to block the affected certificates, and eMudhra has also decided to revoke them.