Hackers have been found exploiting a flaw in Java to serve malware to unsuspecting web users on the open source server coding site php.net.
The issue came to light after visitors to the site started receiving notifications from Google’s safe browsing service that malware was on the site. This alerted the php.net team who investigated the cause of the warnings.
They discovered that every so often a file within the servers used for the website was modified to serve malware to a user, before it reverted back to its original form. This made it especially hard to discover the issue, and it was only found thanks to Google’s scanning system. (más…)
