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Cloudflare CEO says AI agents burden websites and PHP2SHELL was likely exploited before disclosure

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CEO Matthew Prince said on the third-quarter earnings call that AI agent traffic is becoming a serious cost for website operators, and that some customers want to block agents. He also said nation-state actors and criminals likely exploited the PHP2SHELL vulnerability for years before its disclosure, and that Cloudflare is reviewing its logs for evidence of past use.

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