According to CoinMeta, on Thursday, after a serious vulnerability was discovered in the PHP web programming language, the South Korean government raised the level of cybersecurity alerts for the private sector and initiated emergency response measures to address the increased risk of hacker attacks. According to a press release from the South Korean Presidential Office, an emergency meeting was held by the President's National Security Office, where officials from intelligence, defense, and science departments jointly assessed the response measures of the public sector, private sector, and military. The Ministry of Science and ICT of South Korea stated that security guidelines have been issued to approximately 28,000 enterprises registered to have a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), 5,900 members of the government information sharing network, as well as operators of critical infrastructure, web hosting services, and data center providers.