id: 3756
uid: ED8eh
insdate: 2026-10-23 08:10:09
title: PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware
additional: Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium, as it emerges that weaponizing the flaws may be harder than previously thought.

The attacks aim to exploit CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS scores: 9.2), which can result in unauthenticated remote
category: Cybersecurity
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