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A comment on Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor (CVE-2024-3094). Parent comment

Re:Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backd... by acdha on Monday April 01, 2024 @02:31PM (#39897445)
Thanks! That’s a little disappointing since I would have thought that the way it hooked those functions could’ve been caught by a generic heuristic but perhaps that’s more common than I thought.
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Re:Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backd... by acid__ on Monday April 01, 2024 @08:52PM (#39901191)
My experience from working in the security space is that all the tech is pretty un-sexy (with very good sales pitches), and none of it will save you from a nation-state attacker.
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Re:Xzbot: Notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backd... by acdha on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @08:13AM (#39904852)
Same. I was hoping to be wrong in my cynicism but…
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