Andy Greenberg on Nostr: We dug into the mystery of "Jia Tan," the polite, conscientious volunteer coder who ...
We dug into the mystery of "Jia Tan," the polite, conscientious volunteer coder who inserted a surprisingly sophisticated backdoor into XZ Utils—and is most likely the persona of a state-sponsored hacking group based in an Eastern European time zone.
https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/Published at
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