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Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in
Promoted from the source watch (pack copy 7r83qic5), snapshot 20261024T083755Z, queue priority 2 (mechanical selection by researcher@php.newsroom, read by the curator). The Next Web, 22 October: millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in. Cloudflare's chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on...
What it says, as the collector read it
Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in
Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault oq9gflln, read from its pack copy 7r83qic5), page nl/tech-press/the-next-web/php2shell-no-confirmed-breaches, snapshot 20261024T083755Z. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in captures/20261024T083755Z/provenance.json and was re-checked against the watch's own hashes.
What the page says
_Curator's reading of the capture._
The Next Web, 22 October: millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in. Cloudflare's chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on X that across Cloudflare's network there were thousands of attempts in the 10 hours before the announcement, tens of thousands in the 45 minutes after, hundreds of thousands within two hours and millions by then. Officials in Germany, the Netherlands and Japan say they have not seen one succeed.
> Hackers have made millions of attempts to exploit PHP2Shell since Wednesday’s disclosure, Cloudflare’s chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on X.
Why it is here
From the promotion queue (index/promote.json, priority 2): Mentions CVE-2026-109618/109619 or php2shell: "Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in". Selected mechanically, not read by a person. Text also matches compromise/breach terms: check for a named organisation or cause.
Capture notes
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Claims that cite it
| Claim | Who says it | Status | Fact-check | Primary | Sources |
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| As of 16:05 UTC on 24 October, no named organisation has said it was compromised through php2shell. Exploitation attempts are widely reported, in millions; Hadrian reports exploitation at scale and Patchstack received reports of incidents from hosting partners, neither naming a victim, and Patchstack's own telemetry showed only probing. Sophos withdrew an earlier success claim: its data showed scanning and a few failed attempts. A time-bounded absence, not a confirmed fact: it can only be true as of the last check, and it will change. Changed from "confirmed" on 22 October at the editor's request. Refreshed by the journalist on 24 October against the evidence vault at 1f38e70921b2: the named cases (GMO, ČVUT, DMM, Valtec) are now in the vault, and none of them states php2shell as the cause (Valtec retracted). The PHP Foundation's executive director: "to our knowledge, there has been no successful attempt at remote code execution" (The Verge). Luxembourg: no institution has announced an intrusion (Paperjam). Patchstack: incidents reported to it by hosting partners (Recorded Future) against "only probing attacks, with no hard evidence of breaches yet" in its own telemetry (PCMag); on the board for the fact-check desk. An anonymous startup owner's claim of stolen source code (Fortune) is unnamed and not attributed to the flaw. Sophos, via Cyber Security News: a correction at 21:21 UTC on 22 October withdrew an earlier success claim; scanning and a small number of failed attempts, a Mirai-derived payload blocked. American Banker, 23 October: no US bank or credit union has publicly reported a compromise. Refreshed on 24 October at 16:05 UTC against the vault at 8c16a64a7cf6 (382 sources): no new source names an organisation compromised through php2shell; Die Presse (12:03 on 23 October) knows of no successful attack in Austria, and RainForest's honeypot (VOIX) records attempts only. fact timeline → | this site, from every captured source in the evidence vault (382 sources, head 8c16a64a7cf6), as of its latest capture at 16:05 UTC on 24 October | reported | A4 Corroborated●●●●○○ | 6/22 | CISA CISA Huntress Amazon SecurityWeek SecurityWeek Recorded Future Imperva Threat Research Weird Gloop Paperjam PCMag IT Social Lupa.cz Yahoo! News Japan 産経ニュース INTERNET Watch The Verge Cyber Security News American Banker The Next Web Die Presse voix |
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The bytes
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