{"type":"post","id":"observations-from-running-stealmybitcoin-com-239a88","slug":"observations-from-running-stealmybitcoin-com-239a88","title":"Observations from Running stealmybitcoin.com","description":"Pavursec’s October 30 account describes a public PHP2Shell challenge that ended with one participant extracting useful data from an internet-facing server configured to be vulnerable.","retrieval_nugget":"Pavursec’s October 30 account describes a public PHP2Shell challenge that ended with one participant extracting useful data from an internet-facing server configured to be vulnerable. The experiment shows the exploit could work outside a lab, while its results do not support the claim that relatively unskilled attackers could reliably compromise arbitrary PHP sites with AI assistance.","published_at":"2026-11-02","updated_at":"2026-11-02","record_date":"2026-11-02","date_kind":"published_at","topics":["codex"],"entities":["Pavursec","PHP2Shell","PHP","Codex","Hacker News"],"related_patterns":[],"novelty_label":"new_angle","what_changed":"The author tests PHP2Shell’s real-world exploitability and argues the widely reported emergency may have been overstated, finding little evidence of hacked sites.","prior_refs":["https://newruntime.com/posts/the-php-project-released-security-updates-on-21-3da3dc/","https://newruntime.com/posts/today-s-php-security-release-and-how-we-cac9ed/"],"source_url":"https://pavursec.com/blog/stealmybitcoin","source_urls":["https://pavursec.com/blog/stealmybitcoin"],"schema_version":"newruntime-agent-readable-v0.2","stable_id":"post:observations-from-running-stealmybitcoin-com-239a88","status":"published","visuals":[],"editor":{"role":"editor","name":"Andrey Reshetnikov","profile":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.md","profile_json":"https://newruntime.com/owner-profile.json","same_as":["https://www.linkedin.com/in/reshetnikov1/","https://t.me/lapetuse"]},"routes":{"html":"https://newruntime.com/posts/observations-from-running-stealmybitcoin-com-239a88/","markdown":"https://newruntime.com/posts/observations-from-running-stealmybitcoin-com-239a88.md","json":"https://newruntime.com/posts/observations-from-running-stealmybitcoin-com-239a88.json"},"markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/observations-from-running-stealmybitcoin-com-239a88.md","next_reads":[{"type":"topic","path":"/topics/codex/","url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/codex/","title":"Codex","reason":"Explore the codex topic hub.","media_type":"text/html","markdown_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/codex.md","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/topics/codex.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/posts/","url":"https://newruntime.com/posts/","title":"Field Notes","reason":"Open the latest editorial analysis.","media_type":"text/html","json_url":"https://newruntime.com/posts.json"},{"type":"collection","path":"/sources/","url":"https://newruntime.com/sources/","title":"Sources","reason":"See the original sources this archive cites.","media_type":"text/html"}]}