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Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor in XZ (web.archive.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Well, it doesn't invalidate the analysis.

This was a sophisticated attack happening over 2 years, from knowing the current maintainer was emotionally vulnerable to the structure of using the build system to introduce the patched code to Linux distro repos.

I'm guessing Kaspersky will come to the same conclusions many others have; that this was a state actor or similiarly well heeled group.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

First time I've seen somebody acknowledge that it's not just nation states with such capabilities. There are some huge organized crime syndicates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

But from what I've seen cybersec is mostly about blaming Russia/China/DPRK