{"id":10500,"date":"2026-10-23T08:16:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/php2shell-exploit-attempts-hit-millions-as-attackers-try-to-deploy-mirai-malware\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T08:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T08:16:48","slug":"php2shell-exploit-attempts-hit-millions-as-attackers-try-to-deploy-mirai-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/php2shell-exploit-attempts-hit-millions-as-attackers-try-to-deploy-mirai-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat 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.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks aim to exploit CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS scores: 9.2), which can result in unauthenticated remote\u00a0Threat 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.<\/p>\n<p>The attacks aim to exploit CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS scores: 9.2), which can result in unauthenticated remote\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bThreat 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\u00a0Threat&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/23\/php2shell-exploit-attempts-hit-millions-as-attackers-try-to-deploy-mirai-malware\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}