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," ...

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 ...