Fake Laravel Packages on Packagist Deploy RAT on Windows, macOS, and Linux

GR 05/03/2026 0 Comments

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged malicious Packagist PHP packages masquerading as Laravel utilities that act as a conduit for a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) that’s functional on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.
The names of the packages are listed below –

nhattuanbl/lara-helper (37 Downloads)
nhattuanbl/simple-queue (29 Downloads)
nhattuanbl/lara-swagger (49 Downloads)

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