{"id":"thehackernews-9d0cfa945b25","seq":436684,"kind":"news","title":"PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware","url":"https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/php2shell-exploit-attempts-hit-millions.html","permalink":"https://vulnpulse.app/items/thehackernews-9d0cfa945b25","summary":"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","severity":null,"techs":[],"cves":["CVE-2026-109618","CVE-2026-109619"],"tags":["security"],"source":{"id":"thehackernews","name":"The Hacker News"},"published_at":"2026-10-23T07:40:45.000Z","fetched_at":"2026-10-23T07:56:53.326Z"}