Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in
Millions of PHP2Shell attempts so far, but officials see no break-in

Hackers have made millions of attempts to exploit PHP2Shell since Wednesday’s disclosure, Cloudflare’s chief executive, Matthew Prince, said on X. Officials in Germany, the Netherlands and Japan say they have not seen one succeed. Some stats on #php2sh…

1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them
1Password lets AI agents use your passwords without seeing them

1Password is introducing a new feature that allows AI agents to sign into your accounts without actually seeing or handling your passwords. The aptly named 1Password for Agents doesn’t give bots free reign to access all of your connected accounts – you’ll still need to grant approval for sign-in requests – but should make it […]

Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots
Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robots

Eiliko, a cute robot charm you can hang on your bag with built-in AI conversations, turned out to be a security nightmare. It told owners that “your secrets are safe with me,” but hackers could easily read complete transcripts of everything we told the toy, and that was just the beginning. The Verge and security […]

ESET says Russia-linked hackers hid malware traffic in Yggdrasil network
ESET says Russia-linked hackers hid malware traffic in Yggdrasil network

ESET linked hackers to Russia, using a decentralised network to hide their malware during an attack on a Ukrainian grain company. The security company says it is the first documented case of a state-linked hacking group using the Yggdrasil network in t…

PHP security crisis live — all the latest news as issues affect websites across the world
PHP security crisis live — all the latest news as issues affect websites across the world

PHP issues are affecting websites across the globe – we’re covering the latest news and updates as it happens.

PHP releases emergency fixes as some of the world’s biggest websites say they were targeted by hackers

PHP urges organizations to deploy the fixes immediately, as threat actors start abusing the php2shell bug

Hackers Exploited the PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before They Were Patched

Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.

‘Thanks again for your help!’: Rogue AI agents on Tencent Cloud tried to crack Alibaba’s Amap, then chatted politely with the team tracking them
‘Thanks again for your help!’: Rogue AI agents on Tencent Cloud tried to crack Alibaba’s Amap, then chatted politely with the team tracking them

AI agents made thousands of requests to Alibaba’s Amap, bypassed some restrictions, and prompted researchers to investigate their infrastructure and uncertain origins.

PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today
PHP: The three letters that shut down sites all over the internet today

Two bugs found with AI are behind major issues today for 4chan, DeviantArt, Wikipedia, and the blog where the bar around the corner posts pictures of people’s dogs. The “critical vulnerabilities” were discovered in the PHP programming language, which underpins much of the internet, including any site built on WordPress. But it’s far bigger than […]

The internet is having a very bad cybersecurity day

From AI-discovered PHP vulnerabilities to flaws in Node.js and popular AI tool LiteLLM, cybersecurity teams have plenty to worry about this week.