Last month, the world narrowly avoided a cyberattack of stunning ambition. The targets were some of the most important computers on the planet. Computers that power the internet. Computers used by ...

XZ is a compression tool used in many Linux distributions, and this time the attack specifically targeted the OpenSSH server process 'sshd.' In distributions such as 'Ubuntu,' 'Debian,' and ...

On March 29, 2024, it was revealed that the compression tool ' XZ Utils ' had a malicious backdoor. Google engineer Russ Cox has compiled a chronological summary of how the backdoor was installed. XZ ...