{"id":287720,"date":"2026-07-09T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/linuxs-biggest-security-breaches-prove-its-not-immune-to-malware\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T17:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T21:05:09","slug":"linuxs-biggest-security-breaches-prove-its-not-immune-to-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/linuxs-biggest-security-breaches-prove-its-not-immune-to-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux’s biggest security breaches prove it’s not immune to malware"},"content":{"rendered":"

Linux’s biggest security breaches prove it’s not immune to malware<\/a><\/p>\n

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Publish Date: 2026-07-09 12:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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One thing Linux fans have always loved to tout over Windows was its security. While Windows has had lots of high-profile security breaches, Linux has also had its share of malware attacks, putting the belief that it’s more secure than Windows in question.<\/p>\n

\n XZ Utils supply chain attack
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\n An attack stopped in the nick of time
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XZ Utils is an open-source compression utility similar to ZIP and RAR. It’s well-known for its high compression rates compared to other compressed file formats, and is widely used in commercial software including Google Chrome and Spotify. XZ Utils’ ubiquity made it vulnerable to a supply chain attack.<\/p>\n

A developer using the name “Jia Tan” (the programmer’s actual identity remains unknown) apparently badgered the previous maintainer,, Lasse Collin, over slow updates to the project and convinced Collin to give them full access to the codebase. The developer spent several years placing a backdoor into XZ Utils that would have given them full access to nearly any Linux machine using SSH.<\/p>\n

It was almost by pure luck that a Microsoft developer caught this backdoor when he noticed higher-than-usual CPU usage from SSH. The backdoored versions of XZ Utils were shipping in distros that used newer versions, but when the backdoor was discovered, the updates were quickly recalled. If this attack had succeeded, it might have been the biggest security breach in Linux’s history. The backdoor…<\/p>\n

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