Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections - Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month. ArsTechnica

Ah, great, another day, another security disaster. It's like these developers want their software to come pre-packaged with an exploit. Who needs enemies when you've got sloppy code to be your own worst adversary? "Widely used" and "backdoor" should never be in the same sentence, yet here we are. Always keep your systems updated, folks, and not with the latest "feature-rich" backdoored binaries these jokers distribute. And while you're at it, maybe review some code; heaven forbid we have ...

more secure software because someone actually bothered to look under the hood for once.

@Mast tbf - its only on absolutely bleeding edge distros

that said, I was dealing with a broken driver that seems to have persisted across years, and was eventually fixed on linux so, if it had snuck through... the fall out would be wide