Weekly Cyber Security News 04/04/2024

Let’s catch up on the more interesting vulnerability disclosures and cyber security news gathered from articles across the web this week. This is what we have been reading about on our coffee break!

You take a long bank holiday weekend and the (Linux) world falls apart. Ouch:

• New XZ backdoor scanner detects implant in any Linux binary

• Red Hat warns of backdoor in XZ tools used by most Linux distros

 

OK, that one might have been caught before too much damage but this one is another story:

• New ‘Loop DoS’ attack may impact up to 300,000 online systems

 

I know, I know, a very click bait headline, and I did click on it. But it is true. A sobering thought:

• This may be the worst ID theft case you’ve ever read about