Cybersecurity
Laravel-Lang: Every Git Tag, Rewritten — The 15-Minute Supply Chain Attack That Backdoored 700+ Versions Of A Package Half The Laravel World Has Installed
On May 22 an attacker with push access to the Laravel-Lang GitHub organization did not commit malicious code. They rewrote every existing git tag in four popular Composer packages to point at a new malicious commit — meaning every previously safe version constraint became unsafe overnight. What happened, why this attack class breaks Composer's normal defenses, and the exact lockdown checklist every Laravel team needs to run this week.
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