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Suspected Chinese attackers built a custom PHP2Shell exploit and rooted 25 servers

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Suspected Chinese attackers built a custom PHP2Shell exploit and rooted 25 servers
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Suspected Chinese attackers chained PHP2Shell with a Linux kernel privilege-escalation exploit to root 25 servers, including Palo Alto Networks firewalls linked to US government-affiliated organizations, according to Dream researchers.The snoops began exploiting these servers on October 23, targeting organizations across the US, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. The attackers also honed in on US government-affiliated firewalls.“Within hours of compromising a US government-affiliated firewall, they

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