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Malicious Laravel Packages Deploy PHP RAT, Grant Remote Access to Attackers

Malicious Packagist packages masquerading as Laravel helper utilities are delivering an obfuscated PHP remote access trojan (RAT) that grants full remote control over compromised hosts. Two of these, nhattuanbl/lara-helper and nhattuanbl/simple-queue, embed a byte‑for‑byte identical RAT payload in src/helper.php. A third package, nhattuanbl/lara-swagger, appears benign…