Catalin Cimpanu reports:
Hackers have breached the internal Git repository of the PHP programming language and have added a backdoor to the PHP source code in an attack that took place over the weekend, on Sunday, March 28.
The backdoor mechanism was first spotted by Michael Voříšek, a Czech-based software engineer.
If the malicious code had made it into production, the code would have allowed threat actors to execute their own malicious PHP commands on victims’ servers.
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