PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware

Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium as it emerges that weaponizing the flaws may be harder than previously thought The attacks aim to exploit CVE2026109618 and CVE2026109619 CVSS scores 92 which can result in unauthenticated remote