What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world Malicious updates made to a ubiquitous tool were a few weeks away from going mainstream.

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Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility targets encrypted SSH connections Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

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.

Security researcher Costin Raiu tells Wired the XZ Utils attack is far more “cunning” than anything he’d seen previously. Others have looked into when Tan submitted their code.

However, “utils” cannot be observed, measured, or compared between different economic goods or between individuals.