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What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2024
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How quickly was it caught?
After a month from what I read, most distro hadn't included it yet
Edit: it had been prepped for 2 years or so and the malicious code was introduced a while ago, but from release it took about a month to detection