PHP support had been a long time coming, since PHP has been a popular programming language for GitHub hosted projects for years, ranking third and fourth in recent years.

The PHP project kicked off in 1995 and would eventually become a server-side scripting language and general-purpose programming language used by tech giants like Facebook, Yahoo, and Etsy.

Essentially the code was a backdoor that would have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code on any web server running this Trojanized version of PHP by simply sending requests to it with a ...

PHP.net hacked, code backdoored The commits were made to the php-src repo under the account names of two well-known PHP developers, Rasmus Lerdorf and Nikita Popov.

Veracode, a global leader in application risk management, today unveiled its 2025 GenAI Code Security Report, revealing critical security flaws in AI-generated code. The study analyzed 80 curated ...