Sun Tzu once said, “If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt.” Yet, despite global cybersecurity investment crossing $188 Billion and 93% of companies feeling cyber-secure, the data breaches in the US alone were up by 78% in 2023.

CVE-2024-3094 is a critical backdoor vulnerability found in the XZ Utils open-source library. The vulnerability was caused by a malicious code injected into the library by one of the maintainers. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute any desired code on systems with exposed SSH packages.