AWS says hackers tried to exploit PHP security issues days before fix — as Cloudflare CEO says it saw a huge rise in targeted attack attempts
THE SO WHAT
Attackers were probing critical PHP flaws days before patches landed and then scaled to millions of attempts—disclosure-to-exploit time is effectively zero. If you’re running PHP anywhere near customer or payment flows, you need automated patching and WAF rules ready before CVEs hit Twitter, not after.
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