Cloudflare Reports Millions of Exploit Attempts After PHP Flaws Disclosed
Cloudflare reported millions of attempts to exploit newly disclosed vulnerabilities in PHP, or Hypertext Preprocessor, as companies and governments raced to secure websites and online services built on the widely used programming language. Cloudflare Chief Executive Matthew Prince described the rapid escalation in a post on X late Wednesday (Oct.
Covered by 11 publishers within 25 hours of the first report.
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The Next Web Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in · Ana Maria Constantin
BleepingComputer Amazon says PHP2Shell exploitation began 4 days before patches · Sergiu Gatlan
Implicator.ai Amazon Logged a PHP2Shell Exploit Attempt Four Days Before Disclosure · Marcus Schuler
Cyber Security News Hackers Were Targeting Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched · Tushar Subhra Dutta
Security Affairs PHP2Shell Attacks Started Four Days Before Public Disclosure, AWS Reports · Pierluigi Paganini
The Verge The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch · Emma Roth
SiliconANGLE PHP2Shell attacks began four days before patches, Amazon says, as attempts hit millions · Duncan Riley
The Hacker News PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware · info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News)
SecurityWeek Mirai Botnet Operators Join PHP2Shell Attacks as ASLR Bypass Exploits Emerge · Eduard Kovacs