Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor stateevergreeninblogtagsopen-sourcedate3/29/2024licenseCC BY-SA 4.0This publication was last updated at 12:49 PM EST on April 8th Recently, a backdoor was discovered in XZ, a popular library for lossless data compression. Initial research efforts were predominantly concentrated on unpacking the well-disguised attack vector, while the social aspects of the at