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Exploit attempts across Cloudflare's network: thousands in the ten hours before announcement, tens of thousands within 45 minutes after, hundreds of thousands within two hours, millions by 22 October 01:25 UTC
Primary party. Attempts, not compromises; no blocked count; 1.4 million views at capture.
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A2 Reported●●○○○○ measures differently · Count · verdict: holds
Prince's own post carries all four figures and the 01:25 UTC time (UTC browser); the counter and date are known, the population is 'attempts across the Cloudflare network', but the method (what counts as an attempt: rule matches, requests, deduplication) is not stated, so A2 is the ceiling. SecurityWeek, the EADT and Tagesspiegel only repeat it.
| Capture checked | Result | What it says | sha256 of the text read |
|---|---|---|---|
| x-eastdakota-php2shell-stats | carries | In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. | 4069805bcb164ff1 |
| x-eastdakota-php2shell-stats | carries | That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now. | 4069805bcb164ff1 |
| x-eastdakota-php2shell-stats | carries | 1:25 · 22 Oct 2026 | 4069805bcb164ff1 |
| imperva-blog-php2shell | absent | During this pre-disclosure monitoring period, Imperva observed no traffic matching the monitored PHP2Shell exploit patterns. | 3da873bdb21219a6 |
Open tickets: Finding-61.
Graded in Run-1, resting on captures up to 2026-10-22 11:18 UTC. The scale is on the fact-check page.
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- 2026-10-22 01:25 UTCMatthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO on… publishes Matthew Prince 🌥 on X: "Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the
- 2026-10-22 11:18 UTCSaved into the evidence vault: Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO on…
- 2026-10-22Enters this site as reported in v0.2.0 (reconstructed from git)
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v1 · site v0.2.0 · 22 October 2026 · reported
Exploit attempts across Cloudflare's network: thousands in the ten hours before announcement, tens of thousands within 45 minutes after, hundreds of thousands within two hours, millions by 22 October 01:25 UTC Who says it: Matthew Prince, Cloudflare CEO, on X Status: reported Topic: exploitation Sources: x-eastdakota-php2shell-stats