Red Hat is warning that a vulnerability in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utility included in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, is a backdoor. Users should either downgrade the utility ...

In a reminder that open source products can carry significant risks beyond intellectual property, a vulnerability in a compression tool commonly used by developers has triggered widespread concerns.

The infamous XZ Utils backdoor discovered last year may have a bit of life in it yet. Binarly on Aug. 12 published research concerning the XY Utils backdoor, a notorious incident in which a developer ...

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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 ...

The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk. Evolving threats ...

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, ...

It’s a lot more complicated than that. The FOSS ideal is “You are what you code,” not “Your reputation precedes you.” As such, it shouldn’t matter one whit if you are a seventeen-year cicada larva ...

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 ...

This is a full-on hostile attack against our infrastructure. Finding exactly who did this and how they were organized feels like something Homeland Security should be aggressively pursuing. I would be ...