Update on PHP.net site malware hack attack

It has been officially confirmed that the php.net website of the open-source PHP programming language has been hacked and infected with malware. The successful breach of the site came to light yesterday morning when the Google Safe Browsing service started flagging php.net as serving up malicious scripts. This was, at first, denied by php.net which Tweeted claims that it was down to a false negative by Google. However, that position has changed and now it has been officially confirmed that two servers at php.net had been hacked and were, indeed, hosting malicious code in order to install malware on the computers of unsuspecting visitors.