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Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident
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High-end APT groups perform highly interesting social engineering campaigns in order to penetrate well-protected targets. For example, carefully constructed forum responses on precision targeted accounts and followup “out-of-band” interactions regarding underground rail system simulator software helped deliver Green Lambert implants in the Middle East. And, in what seems to be a learned approach, the XZ Utils project penetration was likely a patient, multi-year approach, both planned in advance but somewhat clumsily executed.
This recently exposed offensive effort slowly introduced a …
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