Risky Business Video
November 09, 2026
Between Two Nerds: Why PHP2Shell fizzled
Presented by
Tom Uren
Policy & Intelligence
The Grugq
Independent Security Researcher
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about why PHP2Shell failed to live up to its hype. A critical bug in a very widely used web scripting language amounted to… not much. The pair dissect the reasons why.
Show notes:
- Zack Korman on PHP https://x.com/ZackKorman/status/2115785811283370277
- Marcus Hutchins on hacking as a business https://x.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/2115864790833004641/history
- Brian in Pittsburgh on memory corruption https://x.com/arekfurt/status/2114495028601225226