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How one volunteer stopped a backdoor from exposing Linux systems worldwide

  • Amrita Khalid--The Verge
  • published date: 2024-04-02 23:38:27 UTC

A maintainer for a Linux-based database identified malicious code hidden in a tool called XZ Utils and stopped a global security breach in its tracks.

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