Cloudflare saw millions of php2shell exploit attempts, defense must shift to agents 24/7
AccBalanced · x · 2026-10-22
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince disclosed attack stats for the #php2shell vulnerability: thousands of exploit attempts in the 10 hours before public announcement, tens of thousands within 45 minutes after, hundreds of thousands in 2 hours, and millions now. Former Google security lead Ed Simeoni argues this marks a new era of cybersecurity—mass-scale attacks with zero-to-negative defense time that no human SOC can match, requiring agent-plus-compute defense running 24/7.
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