A critical backdoor was recently discovered in the widely used XZ Utils Linux compression package. This vulnerability could have allowed unauthorized access to systems running affected versions, including popular distributions like Fedora and Debian. In this video, we break down what happened, who was impacted, how the backdoor was discovered, and what you need to do to check if your system is vulnerable.

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