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Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in

Japan’s banks and airlines took services offline, and Amazon says attackers began probing four days before the flaws were public.

Tarun Mottlia

Via TNW | Data-security

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Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in
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Hackers have made millions of attempts to exploit PHP2Shell since Wednesday’s disclosure, Cloudflare’s chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on X. Officials in Germany, the Netherlands and Japan say they have not seen one succeed.

Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.

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