The beta version of Ubuntu 24.04 won’t be released on time, the developers have confirmed, following concerns about a major security threat. Instead of launching on April 4, the latest Ubuntu version, ...

Microsoft has released a detailed set of FAQs and recommendations for users who are affected by the XZ Utils vulnerability which allows a threat actor to exploit SSH operations and get remote access.

Red Hat is warning that a vulnerability in XZ Utils, the XZ format compression utility included in Unix-like operating systems such as Linux, is a backdoor. Users should either downgrade the utility ...

On March 29, 2024 local time, developer Andres Freund reported the existence of a malicious backdoor in XZ Utils. According to him, it was confirmed that malicious code was present in versions 5.6.0 ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert Friday warning of a previously unnoticed backdoor in a widely used Linux tool that compresses and encrypts files shared between ...

The XZ-Utils backdoor, first discovered in March 2024, is still present in at least 35 Linux images on Docker Hub, potentially putting users, organizations, and their data at risk. Evolving threats ...

Over the past few days, the security world has been abuzz with the discovery of a backdoor snuck into a compression utility called xz-utils. While this backdoor was effectively a near miss, getting ...

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An enormous cyber-attack that would have had a catastrophic impact on millions of computer systems across the planet was thwarted over the weekend by a lone researcher, who spotted a backdoor in the ...