Hackers exploited critical PHP vulnerabilities days before patches were released, causing widespread internet attacks that AWS detected and are now broadly active.
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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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