Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched

By Lily Hay Newman · Wired · Thursday, 22 October 2026 at 02:24 (2h ago) · Original article ↗

Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.

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