Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability

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Source: www.arstechnica.com · Section: business-tech · Bias: Center · Published: Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:25:02 GMT

Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.