
The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch
Summary
Security monitoring systems detected active hacker attempts targeting critical PHP vulnerabilities days before developers released a software patch. Amazon Threat Intelligence reported that malicious actors tried to leverage the flaws against online sites using a specific exploit method.
Hackers attempted to exploit the PHP flaws impacting sites across the web days before they were patched, according to a report from Amazon Threat Intelligence. CJ Moses, Amazon chief information security officer, writes that the company's security team found a PHP2Shell exploit attempt on October 17th through a monitoring system designed to bait hackers, as reported earlier by Wired and…
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