Attackers were able to place malicious code in the PHP central code repository by impersonating key developers, forcing changes to the PHP Group's infrastructure. Unknown attackers managed to break ...

The maintainers of Packagist, the PHP ecosystem's largest package repository, have fixed a critical vulnerability on their official website that could have allowed an attacker to hijack their service.

Details remain foggy about a recent security breach at the PHP PEAR website, a crucial, but lesser-known part of the PHP ecosystem. PEAR, which stands for "PHP Extension and Application Repository," ...

Nikita Popov, one of the developers of PHP, announced on March 28, 2021 that malicious source code had been inserted into PHP. In it, Popov said, 'Yesterday, under the names of Ladov and I, two ...

A researcher hijacked over a dozen Packagist packages—with some having been installed hundreds of millions of times over the course of their lifetime. The researcher reached out to BleepingComputer ...

If you're a software developer with POM files at the root of your project, you know a thing or two about obtaining files from a Maven repository. It's easy to pull from Maven central or the in-house ...