AnalysisCybersecurityOctober 25, 2026

Attackers used agentic AI after PHP2Shell exploits, Unit 42 says

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Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said one attacker hit a European government entity and within two hours of exploitation had password hashes and MFA secrets, plus an NTLM-relay tunnel into Active Directory. Command batches wrapped in delimiters like ==SHELLUSER== produced machine-parseable output for an AI model to read.

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