Title: Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident

Published:  Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:10:31 +0000

Description: In this article we analyze social engineering aspects of the XZ backdoor incident. Namely pressuring the XZ maintainer to pass on the project to Jia Cheong Tan, and then urging major downstream maintainers to commit the backdoored code to their projects.

Source: SECURELIST.COM