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Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Mutahar explains the discovery of the massive backdoor hidden inside the xz-utils package on Linux systems.

Hello guys and gals, it's me Mutahar again! This time we take a look at what appears to be a situation where a massive backdoor for Linux hidden amongst very widely used tools such as "xz-utils" was discovered and nearly put a whole bunch of systems into serious risk, thankfully it was caught but now we're wondering just how much damage actually remains. Thanks for watching! Like, Comment and Subscribe for more videos!

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What people say. Shared as a popular explanation of the infamous XZ backdoor discovery.

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A Microsoft engineer got suspicious of a slightly slower SSH login time (0.299s to 0.807s), and ended up discovering the infamous XZ backdoor that every Linux subreddit is talking about.
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