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 ...

Microsoft software engineer Andres Freund discovers a backdoor lurking in the XZ Utils data-compression tools, which are open source and widely used across Linux distributions. The Linux community ...

An enormous cyber-attack that would have had a catastrophic impact on millions of computer systems across the planet was thwarted over the weekend by a lone researcher, who spotted a backdoor in the ...

Over the past few days, the security world has been abuzz with the discovery of a backdoor snuck into a compression utility called xz-utils. While this backdoor was effectively a near miss, getting ...

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The Open Source Security (OpenSSF) and OpenJS Foundations have called on open source maintainers to look out for takeover attempts, after spotting multiple social engineering attacks reminiscent of ...

There is a gaping security hole in the widespread XZ utils that could potentially be misused to inject malicious code. A security vulnerability has been discovered in the XZ compression library. This ...

A data compression program in the Unix and Linux world. Developed by Lasse Collin and Igor Pavlov, XZ Utils was released in 2009 as "LZMA Utils." Because XZ can only compress a single file, it is ...