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XZ Utils Backdoor: A Technical Deep Dive

How a two-year-long social engineering effort inserted a backdoor into xz/liblzma's release tarballs, and how a Postgres developer's curiosity about slow SSH logins caught it.

10 Sept 20267 min read
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