Unveiling the xz supply chain attack: A wake-up call for open source communities everywhere

Virginia Backaitis
Digitizing Polaris
Published in
3 min readApr 3, 2024

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In what has been described as a “nightmare scenario” by cybersecurity experts, the open-source community and its users recently faced one of its most serious security breaches yet. The incident, involving the compromise of the widely used xz compression library, underscores the critical importance of vigilance and diligence in…

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