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The XZ backdoor - the unfolding of an accidentally caught severe supply chain attack

A backdoor in the XZ utils targetting Linux systems running SSH was recently accidentally caught. This article covers in detail how it happened.

Apr 7, 202416 min readblog.nixque.comUpdated Apr 10, 2024Read the article

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Eason Li (zenith)

Apr 9, 2024

I don’t think is on a stable release only unstable Linux destro

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