Amazon’s chief information security officer, CJ Moses, reported that the earliest PHP2Shell exploit attempt was detected on 17 October, four days before public disclosure. The request came from an anonymised IP address geolocated to Australia, but the operator’s identity remains unclear.
Source: techtimes.co.uk
New PHP7 bug CVE-2019-11043 can allow even non-technical attackers to take over servers. A recently patched security flaw in modern versions of the PHP programming language is being exploited in the wild to take over servers, ZDNet has learned from threat intelligence firm Bad Packets. The vulnerability is a remote code execution (RCE) in PHP 7, the newer branch of PHP, the most common programming language used to build websites.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the most severe of which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. PHP is a programming language originally designed for use in web-based applications with HTML content. PHP supports a wide variety of platforms and is used by numerous web-based software applications.
Successfully exploiting the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the affected application. Depending on the privileges associated with the application, an attacker could install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Failed exploitation could result in a denial-of-service condition.