A security leak in the Linux compression tool xz shows open-source systems’ vulnerability to multi-year infiltration tactics by “trusted” contributors. In this case, the culprits added malicious code ...

XZ is a compression tool used in many Linux distributions, and this time the attack specifically targeted the OpenSSH server process 'sshd.' In distributions such as 'Ubuntu,' 'Debian,' and ...

For this example, we compress the README.md file of this project, which might even become larger than the original due its small size. In the end of the script execution, a file named README.md.lzma ...

After some troubleshooting, I found this issue (#3554) and followed a similar approach by upgrading xz. Instead of the version mentioned in the issue, I installed the latest xz version (v5.8.1) from ...