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 ...

If you’re managing or using Linux systems, it’s crucial to understand the recent security threat that has emerged. The XZ Utils, an essential tool for lossless data compression on Linux, was ...

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 ...

Last week, the world narrowly escaped what could have been one of the largest and most crippling cyber attacks in history. And yet, there has been minimal media coverage of what (almost) happened. I’m ...

Over the past few days, the security world has been abuzz with the discovery of a backdoor snuck into a compression utility called xz-utils. While this backdoor was effectively a near miss, getting ...

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 ...

Recently, it has become all too common for malicious hackers to insert bad code into software. Some open-source code repositories, such as the popular JavaScript package manager, Node Package Manager ...

The XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) may not have been an isolated incident, according to a joint statement by the Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation. If you're unaware of the ...

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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 ...