Cloudflare CEO: PHP2Shell exploit attempts went from thousands before disclosure to millions
Matthew Prince @eastdakotaXImportance: major (4 of 5)
Why it matters
First-hand network-scale numbers on how fast PHP2Shell exploitation ramped after disclosure; 1.86M views.
Summary
Cloudflare’s CEO gives exploit-attempt counts across Cloudflare’s network before and after the PHP2Shell disclosure.
Archived text
Some stats on #php2shell. In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the @Cloudflare network we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post announcement, hundreds of thousands within 2 hours, and millions now.