research!rsc: Timeline of the xz open source attackPosted on Monday, April 1, 2024. Updated Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a diligent, effective contributor to the xz compression library, eventually being granted commit access and maintainership. Using that access, they installed a very subtle, carefully hidden backdoor into liblzma, a part of xz that also happens to be a d
