The disastrous PHP vulnerabilities were exploited days before the patch

Hackers attempted to exploit the PHP flaws impacting sites across the web days before they were patched, according to a report from Amazon Threat Intelligence . CJ Moses, Amazon chief information security officer, writes that the company's security team found a PHP2Shell exploit attempt on October 17th through a monitoring system designed to bait hackers, as reported earlier by Wired and Bleeping Computer . On Wednesday, websites scrambled to apply a patch for two critical security vulnerabiliti