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This section is a projection of the site's data, rebuilt on every release. A new version is recorded only when the text a reader sees changes, so a release that changed something elsewhere leaves this section's version alone. It has 5 versions; the newest is first, and each is shown as the changes from the one before. Read the current version →
v5 · site v0.17.0 · 24 October 2026 · 2 lines added or changed, 2 removed or changed, against v4 · 6471202d1aaf
23 Oct, 10:03 UTC: Die Presse: as of 12:03 Vienna time (10:03 UTC) on 23 October no successful attack via the PHP flaws was known in Austria. [diepresse-41383717-die-php-sicherheitsluecke-ist-a]
23 Oct, 09:16 UTC: Japan's RainForest reports that its honeypots recorded 21 php2shell-related requests from 14 different addresses: attempts, not break-ins. [voix-business-cards-rainforest-ip-activity-an]
23 Oct, 07:58 UTC: IT Social: the update closes the flaw, but obliges a hunt for possible compromises; the published figures count attempts, not intrusions. [itsocial-cybersecurite-cybersecurite-articles-php]
23 Oct: American Banker: no US bank or credit union has publicly reported a compromise, despite millions of attempts. [americanbanker-news-banks-dodge-early-damage-from-php2s]
22 Oct, 21:21 UTC: Sophos withdraws an earlier claim of a successful compromise: its data shows scanning and a few failed attempts, and a botnet payload it saw was blocked. [cybersecuritynews-critical-php2shell-exploit-code]
v4 · site v0.15.19 · 24 October 2026 · 3 lines added or changed, 3 removed or changed, against v3 · 2fcf720de85f
23 Oct, 07:58 UTC: IT Social: the update closes the flaw, but obliges a hunt for possible compromises; the published figures count attempts, not intrusions. [itsocial-cybersecurite-cybersecurite-articles-php]
23 Oct: American Banker: no US bank or credit union has publicly reported a compromise, despite millions of attempts. [americanbanker-news-banks-dodge-early-damage-from-php2s]
22 Oct, 21:21 UTC: Sophos withdraws an earlier claim of a successful compromise: its data shows scanning and a few failed attempts, and a botnet payload it saw was blocked. [cybersecuritynews-critical-php2shell-exploit-code]
23 Oct: American Banker: no US bank or credit union has publicly reported a compromise, despite millions of attempts. [americanbanker-news-banks-dodge-early-damage-from-php2s]
v3 · site v0.14.30 · 24 October 2026 · 2 lines added or changed, 2 removed or changed, against v2 · c42b7d19e414
22 Oct: Korea's science ministry raises the private-sector cyber crisis alert from 'interest' to 'caution', as reported. [shinailbo-news-articleview-html]
22 Oct: Singapore's Cyber Security Agency tells organisations to patch now and to check whether they were already compromised. [channelnewsasia-singapore-php-vulnerabilities-csa-singapore-firms-cybersecur]
22 Oct: A count in Switzerland finds just over 23,000 of nearly 690,000 servers, about 3.5%, still affected a day after the fix. [ictjournal-news-2026-10-22-deux-failles-critiques-d]
22 Oct: AhnLab, as reported, classes 27 of 100 php2shell repositories on GitHub as proof-of-concept exploits. [rocket-boys-security-measures-lab-php2shell-poc-expl]
23 Oct, 07:58 UTC: IT Social: the update closes the flaw, but obliges a hunt for possible compromises; the published figures count attempts, not intrusions. [itsocial-cybersecurite-cybersecurite-articles-php]
22 Oct, 21:21 UTC: Sophos withdraws an earlier claim of a successful compromise: its data shows scanning and a few failed attempts, and a botnet payload it saw was blocked. [cybersecuritynews-critical-php2shell-exploit-code]
23 Oct: American Banker: no US bank or credit union has publicly reported a compromise, despite millions of attempts. [americanbanker-news-banks-dodge-early-damage-from-php2s]
v2 · site v0.10.19 · 23 October 2026 · 5 lines added or changed, 5 removed or changed, against v1 · 237163adb24d
22 Oct,Oct: 05:20Korea's UTC:science Japan'sministry nationalraises the private-sector cyber agencycrisis issuesalert itsfrom alert.'interest' [jpcert-at260033]to 'caution', as reported. [shinailbo-news-articleview-html]
22 Oct,Oct: 06:16Singapore's UTC:Cyber BBCSecurity NewsAgency openstells a live page: 'Global scrambleorganisations to fixpatch criticalnow cyber-securityand flawsto ascheck manywhether websitesthey takenwere offline'.already [bbc-live-ckgel5xp2xv9t]compromised. [channelnewsasia-singapore-php-vulnerabilities-csa-singapore-firms-cybersecur]
22 Oct,Oct: 06:55A UTC:count Thein BBCSwitzerland reportsfinds just over 23,000 of nearly 690,000 servers, about 3.5%, still affected a day after the USfix. NSA's advice: take systems offline if they cannot be updated. [bbc-live-ckgel5xp2xv9t, nsa-x-2112903220209098897][ictjournal-news-2026-10-22-deux-failles-critiques-d]
22 Oct,Oct: 07:00AhnLab, UTC:as Onereported, classes 27 of the100 researchersphp2shell whorepositories foundon theGitHub flawsas tellsproof-of-concept BBCexploits. Radio 4 there is no evidence yet of them being used in attacks. [bbc-live-ckgel5xp2xv9t][rocket-boys-security-measures-lab-php2shell-poc-expl]
v1 · site v0.3.2 · 22 October 2026 · the first version · 8b53dad095d4
22 Oct, 05:20 UTC: Japan's national cyber agency issues its alert. [jpcert-at260033] 22 Oct, 06:16 UTC: BBC News opens a live page: 'Global scramble to fix critical cyber-security flaws as many websites taken offline'. [bbc-live-ckgel5xp2xv9t] 22 Oct, 06:55 UTC: The BBC reports the US NSA's advice: take systems offline if they cannot be updated. [bbc-live-ckgel5xp2xv9t, nsa-x-2112903220209098897] 22 Oct, 07:00 UTC: One of the researchers who found the flaws tells BBC Radio 4 there is no evidence yet of them being used in attacks. [bbc-live-ckgel5xp2xv9t] 22 Oct, 08:40 UTC: The Dutch national cyber agency's list of affected software reaches 674 products. [ncsc-nl-php2shell-software-list]
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