// The New Stack · 1 March 2026

The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts

In 2024, a backdoor was discovered hidden inside XZ Utils, a compression utility woven into many popular Linux distributions. This The post The XZ Utils aftermath: Inside the mission to stop the next global backdoor before it starts appeared first on The New Stack.

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