Nasty bug with very simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend With PoC code available and active Internet scans, speed is of the essence.

The stealer's code is an obfuscated (Base64) PHP script, which is deciphered directly on memory without touching the disk, minimizing the chances of being detected.

One of PHP's strengths is the ability to easily inject variables, values and attributes into HTML code to create dynamic Web pages.

The vulnerability is a remote code execution (RCE) in PHP 7, the newer branch of PHP, the most common programming language used to build websites.

CVE-2019-11043 is trivial to exploit — and a proof of concept is available. A buffer underflow bug in PHP could allow remote code-execution (RCE) on targeted NGINX servers. First discovered ...

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 compromised the official PHP Git server and planted a backdoor in the source code of the programming language.

PHP web scripts lose performance for a lot of reasons. The bottleneck can be in database queries, web page access or even slow algorithms. When performance drops, the user gets frustrated waiting for ...