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Malicious backdoor code embedded in popular Linux tool, CISA and Red Hat warn
March 29, 2024, 8:28 p.m. |
The Record by Recorded Future therecord.media
The software company Red Hat and the nation’s top cybersecurity agency released a Good Friday warning about malicious code being embedded in a popular Linux tool. The issue — tagged as CVE-2024-3094 — affects XZ Utils, a tool that helps compress large file formats into smaller more manageable ones for sharing via file transfer.
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