PHP2Shell: Millions of Attacks, 1.5M Servers Unpatched on Day One | AI Weekly

PHP2Shell: Millions of Attacks, 1.5M Servers Unpatched on Day One | AI Weekly

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AI Weekly, 23 October: a newsletter issue headlined 'Millions of attacks, 1.5M servers unpatched on day one'. It says AI models helped researchers find PHP2Shell, two critical flaws that let anyone take over a web server with one request, that details leaked before the fix, that attackers were probing four days early and that attempts are now in the millions. The '1.5M unpatched' figure is in the headline and its source was not found in the part read.

> AI models helped researchers find PHP2Shell, two critical flaws in PHP that let anyone take over a web server with one request.

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