The Market Ticker - On The 'xz' Fiasco
This may well be one of the most-complex, well-thought-out and insidious “hack attempts” in the computer age’s history — so far.
The person or persons involved (while the code has been traced to a “person” there is no evidence, at this point, that said “person” is one person — more on that in a bit) were essentially a “single committer” maintaining a commonly-used compression tool had an intentional compromise included into it.
It would at first blush seem to be a rather odd place to try to put a security compromise, in that compressing or decompressing files is more-or-less a utility function and rarely, if ever, implicates security directly (you…….
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Source: https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=251046
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