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TechLinked | The Linux Hack was an Inside Job

The industry appears to have been spared from potentially massive impacts of the open-source attack, after the insertion of a backdoor by a project maintainer was quickly caught by a Microsoft engineer.

2024-04-04 04:00:00 - TechLinked

In a software supply chain hack described as a “nightmare scenario” by multiple experts, a contributor to an open-source project used by most Linux distributions was responsible for the breach that was nearly disastrous for the IT industry and customers.


Instead, thanks to the efforts of a Microsoft engineer, the backdoor inserted by the insider was discovered Friday before the compromised software could be distributed broadly.


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