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CISA confirmed active exploitation of critical PHP vulnerabilities and gave federal agencies three days to patch them

The American cybersecurity agency CISA reported that hackers have begun using two critical PHP vulnerabilities (PHP2Shell) in real-world attacks, allowing remote takeover of servers without a password. The agency added the bugs to its catalog of known exploited vulnerabilities and required US civilian federal agencies to patch them within three days. The vulnerabilities were discovered two years ago but were considered impractical to exploit until researchers at Calif found a way to exploit them using AI.

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CISA Staff Refused to Secretly Buy and Hack a Voting Machine at the Request of DHS Appointees — ProPublica

According to ProPublica, political appointees at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, after Trump's return to the White House, demanded that CISA secretly acquire a voting machine and attempt to hack it, passing the results to the White House and concealing vulnerabilities from the manufacturer. Agency staff said the task was unfeasible, partly due to staffing cuts. The appointees ultimately abandoned the idea.

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