Read about a supply chain attack that involves XZ Utils, a data compressor widely used in Linux systems, and learn how to protect from this threat. A threat actor quietly spent the last two years ...

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 ...

A Microsoft developer has found a backdoor in a software package of a compression library widely used in Linux systems that could have resulted in a massive software supply chain attack. The author of ...

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, ...

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 ...

A backdoor has been implanted in the two latest versions of XZ Utils — a set of data compression software tools and libraries ‘present in nearly every Linux distribution,’ according to Red Hat. Red ...

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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 ...

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 ...