Hackers exploit PHP flaws to seize servers in Taiwan | Taiwan News | Oct. 30, 2026 09:42

Hackers exploit PHP flaws to seize servers in Taiwan | Taiwan News | Oct. 30, 2026 09:42

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A Taiwanese English-language news report (Taiwan News, 30 October) on Dream's report: an AI-assisted campaign in October identified and took full control of 25 Palo Alto Networks firewall and management servers across Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and the United States, with 22 compromised firewalls left with hidden backdoors for return access and three servers in a US government-affiliated environment singled out for deeper intrusion. It relays that Dream said the target selection indicated potential nation-state efforts, the four countries being China's primary geopolitical rivals, did not attribute the activity to a specific actor but pointed to operation on China Standard Time and use of the Chinese search engine FOFA, and found signs of AI tools in the attackers' environment. It adds that Taiwan's cyber-security agency had called for updates last week and said companies had been fixing their systems.

> 22 compromised firewalls across the four countries were left with hidden backdoors that allow return access

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Language en. Secondhand on Dream's own report (the primary), the same report relayed in cur36-innovatopia-dream-chain and cur37-orcarouter-dream-25-servers. The page also carries an image caption and a list of unrelated headlines. Nothing in the page addresses an AI or hides text from a reader.