On this podcast, Jay and Joao have discussed multiple times a situation where a threat actor submits a pull request that’s more than the project bargained for. And now, we have a situation where OpenSSH was (almost) backdoored by a commit by a maintainer of the xz project. Don’t miss this episode for all the details!

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Relevant Articles* A Deep Dive on the xz Compromise (Joao’s Article) * XZ Utils Supply Chain Attack: A Threat Actor Spent Two Years to Implement a Linux Backdoor