Researcher killa reportedly wins $2,021 Bitcoin bounty using PHP flaws

Cyber Security News reports that killa exploited two critical PHP2Shell flaws to access a test server, completing the challenge in 19.28 hours. The deliberately vulnerable website offered Bitcoin to anyone who could breach it, though Tom's Hardware said no successful claim had been confirmed in its report.

• Cyber Security News puts the prize at 0.02511679 BTC.

Covered by 2 publishers within 7 hours of the first report.

• Cyber Security News: Hacker Exploits Critical PHP2Shell Flaws to Win $2,000 Bitcoin Challenge, Releases PoC
• Latest 6:30 AM ET Tom's Hardware: Bitcoin reward offered to anyone who could break into an unpatched server running PHP, hacker cracks site and claims bounty

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CSN Cyber Security News Hacker Exploits Critical PHP2Shell Flaws to Win $2,000 Bitcoin Challenge, Releases PoC · Guru Baran 11:41 PM

TH Tom's Hardware Bitcoin reward offered to anyone who could break into an unpatched server running PHP, hacker cracks site and claims bounty · Newton Gitonga 6:30 AM

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