Major open-source software projects are warning that more pieces of code than XZ Utils may have been backdoored by attackers, based on ongoing supply-chain attack

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/11143989

Fresh Social Engineering Attacks Resemble Tactics Used Against XZ Utils MaintainerMajor open-source software projects are warning that more pieces of code than XZ Utils may have been backdoored by attackers, based on ongoing supply-chain attack attempts that have targeted “popular JavaScript projects,” apparently seeking to trick them into sharing code maintainer rights.

  • @Buddahriffic
    6•8 months ago

    I’m kinda glad this happened because I was assuming bad actors were fucking with open source stuff before the XZ stuff came out and now it’s on the radar.

    Though I wonder if there’s any way to automate watching for stuff like this. Like the XZ backdoor involved changing what was supposed to be a bad test file, it would be nice to have a system that treats all input files as immutable and if anything needs to be processed, it goes into a separate output folder plus has a reasoning included as to why the input file needs more processing, especially something that doesn’t change from system to system.