this post was submitted on 04 Feb 2026
47 points (98.0% liked)

Opensource

5477 readers
67 users here now

A community for discussion about open source software! Ask questions, share knowledge, share news, or post interesting stuff related to it!

CreditsIcon base by Lorc under CC BY 3.0 with modifications to add a gradient



founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Suspected China-state hackers used update infrastructure to deliver backdoored version.

top 4 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] bwaz@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago

It would be nice if there were a test that yhose of us unskilled in pc jargon could run to check all this stuff. A lot of people likely hit by this are familiar with little more than clicking an icon.

[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Direct link to the indicators of compromise that you can check on

The update system hoster determined the compromise was only used against specific targets, so it's relatively unlikely "normal people" would have been compromised. But if you want to check, you can check on those indicators. These only cover what was discovered on identified compromise, though.

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If only they told us the IOC so the title can actually be followed up on