Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor in XZ
Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor in XZ
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Kaspersky analysis of the backdoor in XZ
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Maybe Kaspersky is Russia backed and is filled with backdoors. Idk, and I don't care because I don't use their products. But I do know they have great security experts and when they publish analysis like thesez they are generally very complete and informative, like when they discovered the remote hack on iPhones thing: https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation-catching-wild-triangle/110916/
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Indeed. Their knowledge and detailed articles are pure gold!
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Straight from the horse's mouth!
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Kaspersky has a backdoor of their own in their software with full access given to Russian gov.
Edit: LOL Down votes by all the Kaspersky users or Russian bots? Trust me this won’t fix your backdoor problem.
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Ngl kaspersky is the close to the last group I care to hear from about security
https://www.techopedia.com/news/kasperskys-us-ban-a-long-history-of-espionage-kgb-nsa-and-edward-snowden
Right. After posting this I saw the blog post by jfrog, which seems to do a very good job : https://jfrog.com/blog/xz-backdoor-attack-cve-2024-3094-all-you-need-to-know/
Well, it doesn't invalidate the analysis.
This was a sophisticated attack happening over 2 years, from knowing the current maintainer was emotionally vulnerable to the structure of using the build system to introduce the patched code to Linux distro repos.
I'm guessing Kaspersky will come to the same conclusions many others have; that this was a state actor or similiarly well heeled group.
First time I've seen somebody acknowledge that it's not just nation states with such capabilities. There are some huge organized crime syndicates.