April 17, 2024, 2:05 p.m. | MalBot

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Committing a Sin, OpenJS Foundation and XZ Utils Incidents: Lessons in Open Source Security

Recent events have brought to light critical issues related to cybersecurity threats and social engineering tactics. The attempted backdoor incident involving XZ Utils and, a short time later, a credible takeover attempt was intercepted by the OpenJS Foundation.


Security researchers have uncovered a credible takeover attempt and a novel attack vector targeting the OpenJS Foundation in a manner that evokes similarities to the recently uncovered incident …

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