Cybersecurity Industry Starts Picking Through Malicious XZ Utils Code

The open source community, federal agencies, and cybersecurity researchers are still trying to get their hands around the security near-miss of the backdoor found in versions of the popular XZ Utils data compression library, malicious code that apparently was methodically put together by bad actors over more than two years and incidentally discovered by a..

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