After a Microsoft software engineer noticed a backdoor in XZ Utils, an open-source set of data-compression tools widely used across Linux, the world was only a couple of weeks away from a major supply ...

Firmware security firm Binarly has released a free online scanner to detect Linux executables impacted by the XZ Utils supply chain attack, tracked as CVE-2024-3094. CVE-2024-3094 is a supply chain ...

If you’re managing or using Linux systems, it’s crucial to understand the recent security threat that has emerged. The XZ Utils, an essential tool for lossless data compression on Linux, was ...

In the world of Linux, file compression is a routine yet critical task, serving the dual purpose of saving disk space and speeding up file transfers. With several compression tools at your disposal, ...

An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented malicious code from spreading into widely-used versions of Linux via a compression format called XZ Utils. An off-the-clock Microsoft worker prevented ...

If the XZ Utils vulnerability hadn’t been caught in time, hackers would have had a “skeleton key to the world,” one analyst told Nextgov/FCW. Open Source Software Development Last year, JC Herz and ...

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The Linux community narrowly avoided a security disaster after a lone software engineer accidentally uncovered a backdoor that was about to be added to major Linux operating systems. Last Friday, ...

Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions, including those from Red Hat and Debian. Because the backdoor was discovered ...

The long-term plan to gain access, and the backdoor’s careful design have experts agreeing that “Jia Tan” was probably not a lone wolf. Security researcher Costin Raiu tells Wired the XZ Utils attack ...

The beta version of Ubuntu 24.04 won’t be released on time, the developers have confirmed, following concerns about a major security threat. Instead of launching on April 4, the latest Ubuntu version, ...