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 but hard‑depends on lara-helper, ensuring the malware is installed transitively whenever developers require the swagger utility. […]

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