500 milliseconds of strangeness
Posted in Computer Forensics, Security Architecture, Technology on Apr 10th, 2024
At the end of March, a developer noticed that his SSH logins took about half a second longer than they should. Most of us would have shrugged. He didn´t. He investigated, and found a backdoor deliberately planted in xz utils, a compression library used in almost every Linux distribution. It had been inserted by a […]