In this case, the hackers had infiltrated a popular open source program called XZ. Slowly, over the course of two years, they transformed XZ into a secret backdoor.

Russian security company Kaspersky posted an analysis article about a backdoor that was discovered in a library called ' XZ Utils ' on March 29, 2024 . Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor in XZ ...

The XZ Utils backdoor that recently sent ripples of concern through the Linux community may have only been the beginning.

On March 29, 2024, it was revealed that the compression tool ' XZ Utils ' had a malicious backdoor. Google engineer Russ Cox has compiled a chronological summary of how the backdoor was installed ...