Amazon Says Attackers Hit PHP2Shell Four Days Before the Bug Went Public
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Researchers Say Hackers Targeted PHP Before Flaws Were Known
Hackers attempted to exploit security vulnerabilities in the widely used programming language PHP several days before the flaws became public, according to cybersecurity researchers at Amazon.com Inc.
The revelation that hackers attempted to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities four days before they were publicly announced and security patches were released has raised serious concerns about internet security. According to a report by WIRED, the two vulnerabilities, collectively known as “PHP2Shell,” have raised alarm among webmasters and cybersecurity experts, as PHP is widely used to run web applications and services. The release of the …
On October 17, AWS observed attacks related to the vulnerability affecting large parts of the web.
Amazon.com, a major US IT company, announced on the 21st that it had found evidence that someone had attempted to exploit a critical vulnerability in its PHP programming language for cyberattacks before the vulnerability was publicly disclosed.
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