Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto ) A hacker compromised the server used to distribute the PHP programming language and added a backdoor to source code that would have made websites vulnerable to complete takeover, members of the open source project said. Two updates pushed to the PHP Git server …

Impacted are PHP-based websites running a vulnerable version of the web-app creation tool Zend Framework and some Laminas Project releases. [...]