2024-04-03
I despise social engineering. These pressure emails are so sad. I respect the technical creativity of the backdoor. But the HUMINT aspect makes me feel awful. What is left of community and humanity when you cannot not trust anybody :/ https://research.swtch.com/... [image]
research!rsc
A timeline of the attack on open-source project XZ Utils, which began in late 2021 and led to a backdoor with RCE in Linux distros Debian, Red Hat, and others
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 …
2022-08-07
Is it just me or is the word „breach" and „0day" in the article a bit exaggerating what happened here? https://twitter.com/...
BleepingComputer
Twitter confirms that a now-patched bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts; a threat actor offered to sell 5.4M records in December 2021
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2022-08-06
Is it just me or is the word „breach" and „0day" in the article a bit exaggerating what happened here? https://twitter.com/...
BleepingComputer
Twitter confirms that a now-patched bug was used to link phone numbers and emails to user accounts; a threat actor offered to sell 5.4M records in December 2021
Twitter has confirmed a recent data breach was caused by a now-patched zero-day vulnerability used to link email addresses …