Urgent Security Alert! Upstream Supply Chain Attack Lead to SSH Compromise

A critical security breach has been identified in the xz compression utility’s liblzma library, leading to a significant compromise of SSH server security across various Linux distributions. The xz format is ubiquitous across Linux distributions, serving as a general-purpose tool for compressing and decompressing large files. The backdoor, which was first detected in Debian sid […]

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