Matthew Prince
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Oct 29, 2026
DJ SampathGUEST
And now it's like sub eight minutes and it's only decreasing.
DJ SampathGUEST
So which means the minute you publish something, like when the PHP, like one of the interesting data that came out that, you know, Matthew Prince was talking about with Cloudflare was, they saw some amount of attacks on the php stuff like you know and it was non-trivial amounts but the minute when the cve was published and it became a thing that number went into the millions or they became aware of this bot started reading these things and instantly started exploiting you know any open websites that were still using phps right so so this is sort of like a very uh interesting thing to keep in mind when you think about attacks are not starting to happen at agent speed You know, your defenders need to start moving at agent speed as well.
DJ SampathGUEST
And to do that, you're going to need to invest in, you know, agents that understand your security posture, agents that understand the context of how your applications are being deployed, being able to recognize the kind of access that you have, the identity that you have, and then coming up with a mechanism of being able to say, hey, hang on, this doesn't look quite right.
DJ SampathGUEST
When you looked at the Microsoft attack that just happened, you know, with the whole, you know, the swarm, I think the thing that it did first was, you know, it attempted 120,000 logins, you know, that were failing logins, but it still attempted that.
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he is aware of additional severe vulnerabilities in other pieces of critical software and said, I think we're going to have a couple years where every single week it's going to feel like the sky is falling, per Reuters.
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Joseph, signal CVE-2026-113380.
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Allows hostile calls to keep the mic and camera on after calls have ended.
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he is aware of additional severe vulnerabilities in other pieces of critical software, and said I think we're going to have a couple years where every single week it's going to feel like the sky is falling, per Reuters.
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JOSF! Signal CVE-2026-113380 Allows hostile calls to keep the MIC and camera on after calls have ended.
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Effects the app on every operating system.
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Situation detected.
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Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says he is aware of additional severe vulnerabilities in other pieces of critical software, and said I think we're going to have a couple years where every single week it's going to feel like the sky is falling, per Reuters.
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JOSF! Signal CVE-2026-113380 Allows hostile calls to keep the MIC and camera on after calls have ended.
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Effects the app on every operating system.
Steve GibsonHOST
hadn't seen.
Steve GibsonHOST
And I'm surprised because Matthew Prince is the person who, as we'll be seeing a little bit later, really does know he's in the center of this.
Mikah SargentHOST
And of course, this was all in the middle of it.
Mikah SargentHOST
So it's possible that that got updated and changed.
8 MINS LATER
Steve GibsonHOST
And we expect similar findings to increase sharply in coming months.
Steve GibsonHOST
Because, again, I want to highlight that.
Steve GibsonHOST
We're going to hear something similar a bit later directly from CloudFlare's Matthew Prince, the CEO.
Steve GibsonHOST
What becomes evident is that this PHP secret, which was closely held for two months before it leaked two days before its planned release date, is just one of the apparently critical discoveries that have been made and are currently embargoed as fixes are being prepared and coordinated Whatever that means.
Steve GibsonHOST
hadn't seen.
Steve GibsonHOST
And I'm surprised because Matthew Prince is the person who, as we'll be seeing a little bit later, really does know he's in the center of this.
Mikah SargentHOST
And of course, this was all in the middle of it.
Mikah SargentHOST
So it's possible that that got updated and changed.
8 MINS LATER
Steve GibsonHOST
And we expect similar findings to increase sharply in coming months.
Steve GibsonHOST
Because, again, I want to highlight that.
Steve GibsonHOST
We're going to hear something similar a bit later directly from CloudFlare's Matthew Prince, the CEO.
Steve GibsonHOST
What becomes evident is that this PHP secret, which was closely held for two months before it leaked two days before its planned release date, is just one of the apparently critical discoveries that have been made and are currently embargoed as fixes are being prepared and coordinated Whatever that means.
Steve GibsonHOST
hadn't seen.
Steve GibsonHOST
And I'm surprised because Matthew Prince is the person who, as we'll be seeing a little bit later, really does know he's in the center of this.
Mikah SargentHOST
And of course, this was all in the middle of it.
Mikah SargentHOST
So it's possible that that got updated and changed.
8 MINS LATER
Steve GibsonHOST
And we expect similar findings to increase sharply in coming months.
Steve GibsonHOST
Because, again, I want to highlight that.
Steve GibsonHOST
We're going to hear something similar a bit later directly from CloudFlare's Matthew Prince, the CEO.
Steve GibsonHOST
What becomes evident is that this PHP secret, which was closely held for two months before it leaked two days before its planned release date, is just one of the apparently critical discoveries that have been made and are currently embargoed as fixes are being prepared and coordinated Whatever that means.
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Many websites, including ones belonging to governments, were temporarily taken down as a precaution.
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In the period following the announcement, the cloud computing company CloudFlare detected millions of attempts to exploit the PHP flaws across its network, according to CEO Matthew Prince.
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Recent weeks have also seen a barrage of news about cyber incidents unrelated to PHP.
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On October 19, Reuters reported that a cybercriminal had deployed AI agents to autonomously hack into more than 100 companies.
BrittanyHOST
It is.
BrittanyHOST
The CEO of Cloudflare, Matthew Prince, said that in the 10 hours before these flaws were publicly announced, quote, we saw thousands of attempts to exploit it.
BrittanyHOST
That jumped to tens of thousands in the 45 minutes post-announcement, hundreds of thousands within two hours, and millions now.
DavidHOST
Wow.
Matt GoddardHOST
And as part of that sort of glass wing collection of businesses, they all started working together.
Matt GoddardHOST
And over the last two months, they've notified companies like Cloudflare, who've got sort of a third of the internet, so they could proactively start collecting trying to block any malicious and bad actors as and when this sort of news broke but i guess what's interesting is like given it was discovered two months ago given the number of companies involved trying to shut all of this down before they sort of announced the patch because obviously php the business and sort of the people fix the protocol and put that out in their release notes there's a patch to fix a vulnerability suddenly everyone spots it and they'll start that start working on it and i was I was listening to a podcast with Matthew Prince, who's the CEO of Cloudflare, who support about a third of the internet.
Matt GoddardHOST
And he was saying that in the build-up, they'd had maybe thousands of attacks on their clients' data and people trying to use this.
Matt GoddardHOST
And as soon as the patch was released, it was tens of millions a minute of people trying to exploit the vulnerability.
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