Hackers exploited critical PHP vulnerabilities days before patches were released, highlighting the urgent need for rapid security updates to prevent widespread web attacks.
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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 Bleeping Computer. On Wednesday, websites scrambled to apply a patch for two critical security vulnerabilities affecting PHP, a programming language used by a large portion of the internet, including WordPress sites. The flaws - CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026- … Read the full story at The Verge.
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