The XZ Utils backdoor that recently sent ripples of concern through the Linux community may have only been the beginning.

On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in xz Utils, an open source data compression utility available on almost all ...

XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack: A Threat Actor Spent Two Years to Implement a Linux Backdoor Your email has been sent Read about a supply chain attack that involves XZ Utils, a data compressor ...

Discovered after OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a request for administrative access for a ‘quick fix’.

But last month another hole in the internet’s infrastructure was discovered: a volunteer who for two years had helped run XZ ...

Attempted hijacking attacks similar to the recent compromise of the XZ Utils data compression project have been averted by ...

Microsoft has discovered a dangerous backdoor vulnerability in XZ Utils, affecting multiple Linux distros. The backdoor is ...

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Caught before it could do widespread damage, the sophisticated vulnerability could have been one of the highest-impact software supply chain breaches to date. A data compression library called XZ ...

Linux, the most widely used open source operating system in the world, narrowly escaped a massive cyber attack over Easter weekend, all thanks to one volunteer. The backdoor had been inserted into ...

In late February, a software engineer discovered a backdoor in an open source package that’s heavily used across the Linux ...