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Mar 2021
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PHP’s Source Code hacked - Two Remote Co...

Hussein Nasser
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Two malicious commits were pushed to the php-src Git repository maintained by the PHP team on their git.php.net server. The commits were found and reverted two hours after it was committed. PHP is moving to github as a result.

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https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/phps-git-server-hacked-to-add-backdoors-to-php-source-code/

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