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Symantec warns of new sophisticated backdoor exploiting patched PHP vulnerability

A new report out today from Symantec, a division of Broadcom Inc., is warning of a new sophisticated backdoor threat that has been spotted in the wild targeting a university in Taiwan. Dubbed Backdoor ...
Threat Post

PHP Infiltrated with Backdoor Malware

The server for the web-application scripting language was compromised on Sunday. The PHP project on Sunday announced that attackers were able to gain access to its main Git server, uploading two ...
Bleeping Computer

Backdoor baked into premium school management plugin for WordPress

Security researchers have discovered a backdoor in a premium WordPress plugin designed as a complete management solution for schools. The malicious code enables a threat actor to execute PHP code ...
Dark Reading

Attackers Target PHP Git Server to Backdoor Source Code

Attackers have breached the official PHP Git server and infected its code base, PHP developers and maintainers report. They have decided to make GitHub the permanent source for PHP repositories going ...
WeLiveSecurity

Backdoor added to PHP source code in Git server breach

Unknown attackers compromised the official PHP Git server and planted a backdoor in the source code of the programming language, potentially putting websites using the tainted code at risk of complete ...
TechRadar

Someone just tried to add a security backdoor in the PHP language

Two malicious changes were made to the development branch of the upcoming PHP v8.1 in an attempt to add a backdoor to any website that runs this tainted version of the popular web development language ...
Bleeping Computer

Hacker Hides Backdoor Inside Fake WordPress Security Plugin

A cyber-criminal has hidden the code for a PHP backdoor inside the source code of a WordPress plugin masquerading as a security tool named "X-WP-SPAM-SHIELD-PRO." The attacker was obviously trying to ...
TechSpot

Hackers pushed malware to PHP repositories to open a "backdoor" to websites

In context: PHP is an open-source scripting language web developers embed in HTML to manage dynamic content, databases, and other everyday tasks. The PHP project maintains its repositories on its own ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Ubiquity Update, PHP Backdoor, And Netmask

Back in January, we covered the news that Ubiquiti had a breach of undisclosed severity. One reader pointed out the compromise of a handful of devices as potentially related. With no similar reports ...