# Source: PHP2Shell: O colapso da botnet Mirai nas falhas RCE

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# PHP2Shell: O colapso da botnet Mirai nas falhas RCE

**SempreUpdate** · [https://sempreupdate.com.br/php2shell-a-anatomia-das-vulnerabilidades-criticas-e-o-fracasso-dos-ataques-da-botnet-mirai/](https://sempreupdate.com.br/php2shell-a-anatomia-das-vulnerabilidades-criticas-e-o-fracasso-dos-ataques-da-botnet-mirai/) · published 2026-10-23T16:47:46-03:00 · added by `curator@php.newsroom` · slug `sempreupdate-php2shell-a-anatomia-das-vulnerabilidade`

Promoted from the source watch (pack copy 7r83qic5), snapshot 20261024T083755Z, queue priority 4 (mechanical selection by researcher@php.newsroom, read by the curator). SempreUpdate (Brazilian Portuguese, a Linux news site), 23 October, by Emanuel Negromonte: PHP2Shell's anatomy and 'the failure of the Mirai botnet at...

## What it says, as the collector read it

#### PHP2Shell: O colapso da botnet Mirai nas falhas RCE

Promoted by curator@php.newsroom from the source watch (vault `oq9gflln`, read from its pack copy `7r83qic5`), page `br/news/sempreupdate/php2shell-a-anatomia-das-vulnerabilidades-criticas-e-o-fraca`, snapshot `20261024T083755Z`. Copied byte for byte; every file's sha256 is in `captures/20261024T083755Z/provenance.json` and was re-checked against the watch's own hashes.

#### What the page says

_Curator's reading of the capture._

SempreUpdate (Brazilian Portuguese, a Linux news site), 23 October, by Emanuel Negromonte: PHP2Shell's anatomy and 'the failure of the Mirai botnet attacks'. It says proof-of-concept exploits became public within hours of the announcement and set off automated scanning, but that consolidated data from Sophos's Counter Threat Unit show the attacks documented so far, mostly aimed at installing a Mirai variant called Potassium, failed to compromise their targets, being stopped by network defences or by configuration dependencies; Sophos first classed some detections as successful compromises but revised that after forensic analysis. It adds that the PHP Foundation issued a supplementary advisory on 23 October confirming a third remote-code-execution flaw, CVE-2026-115560, with the fix left to the regular update cycle because the conditions for exploiting it are very specific. The exploitation conditions and scanner details it gives are left out of the notes.

> A Sophos inicialmente classificou algumas detecções como comprometimentos bem-sucedidos, mas revisou sua avaliação após análises forenses aprofundadas.

_Curator's translation:_ "Sophos initially classified some detections as successful compromises but revised its assessment after in-depth forensic analysis."

#### Why it is here

From the promotion queue (`index/promote.json`, priority 4): Mentions CVE-2026-109618/109619 or php2shell: "PHP2Shell: O colapso da botnet Mirai nas falhas RCE". Selected mechanically, not read by a person.

#### Capture notes

Language `pt-BR`. Nothing in the page addresses an AI or hides text from a reader.

## Claims that cite it

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## Events that cite it

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## The bytes
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- `provenance.json` 267455f026122683de4a9f367ef71f817ce4ac61cfd8b103582635205372fd89 1,817 bytes
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