Forbes June 13, 2025
Frank Jonas, Founder Fidelitas Defense (NVIDIA Inception & Microsoft Startups F.H.) | FBI (ret) | U.S. Marine Corps Vet
In March 2024, the cybersecurity world was rattled when it was revealed that XZ Utils, a popular open-source software (OSS) compression utility used across Linux distributions, had been quietly backdoored by a sophisticated threat actor. Over two years, an attacker posing as a helpful contributor gained maintainership rights, gradually inserting malicious code designed to grant remote shell access to compromised systems. This wasn’t just a supply chain breach; it was a proof of concept for a new era of cyber threat operations: long-term, not detected and buried deep in the dependencies that modern infrastructure relies on.
Now imagine the same concept...
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