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AI for Humans · Friday, October 23, 2026

Cloudflare reports thousands of attacks within minutes of PHP vulnerability

Kevin and Gavin discuss the massive wave of cyber attacks targeting a long-standing PHP vulnerability. According to Matthew Prince from Cloudflare, thousands of exploitation attempts surged to tens of thousands within 45 minutes of the announcement, ultimately exceeding a million attempts.

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The tape

2 quotes
“There was a Matthew Prince from Cloudflare basically said that they saw thousands of attempts to exploit this. That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post-announcement.”
Kevin
“Two hours and supposedly now well over a million.”
Gavin
Heard on AI for Humans — “AI Just Broke The Internet. For Real This Time.”, published Friday, October 23, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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Cloudflare reports thousands of attacks within minutes of PHP vulnerability — Heardvine