I had assumed it was probably a state sponsored attack. This looks like it was planned from the beginning, and any cyber attack that had years of planning and waiting strikes me as state-sponsored.
Well that's unfortunate
Not that we know of, just package versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1
This is just speculation, but I think this was a long planned attack. I think it's unlikely any previous backdoors or significant security vulnerabilities would have been introduced, the goal was to establish themselves as a legitimate contributor and then sneak one critical backdoor in unnoticed. Sneaking in multiple vulnerabilities would have increased the risk of detection.
From what I understand they did cause a conflict with another package, and then used that to try to justify having the backdoored versions of the package fast tracked into upcoming Debian and fedora releases. But that would also suggest that their whole goal was shipping this one backdoor.
If you're on Debian stable, you don't need to worry too much. This attack is actually targeted at Debian and Debian-based systems, but Debian is slow to update packages to make sure everything is stable. Thanks to this, Debian stable never updated with the infected package.
If you were on one of the Debian testing updates though your system is in danger. The other concern is that the bad user who pushed this backdoor has been providing code updates for two years. Seemingly these other updates were legitimate to get him in position to sneak in this backdoor, but there is a chance that he has already snuck in some other kind of backdoor that hasn't yet been identified and that could be present on your system.
For the time being, you're probably ok and we just need to wait to see if any other backdoors are found in the code.
I couldn't remember exactly what Sony said that made me think the PS5 was nearly done, so I took some time to look it up.
The actual wording Sony used was that the PS5 is "entering the latter stage of its life”, which everyone seemed to think was really fast given the lack of PS5 exclusive games and the inaccessibility of consoles for the beginning of the life cycle.
To be fair though, while many people took "latter stage of its life" to mean it's nearly over, sony could just mean the second half of its life and it has 3-4 more years.
Seems kinda late now that Sony is saying the PS5 is nearly done.
They actually have an upgrade fix for it, at least for the known parts of it. Doing a standard system upgrade will replace the xz package with one with the known backdoor removed.
It is possible that it is related to how Turkey has been flagging Linux software as malware.
Do you have any more context on this? A quick search showed someone saying the same thing on Reddit, but I haven't seen any actual sources saying this.
I'm sure a company will start offering ai models for this kind of thing.
I'm less experienced with LLM, but with stable diffusion you can have a main model, and then have smaller detail specific models added in to shape the results. So I would imagine a company will start offering a service where they have base language models with certain amounts of general knowledge/styles of speech, and can mix in smaller models trained on the lore of the world, character's individual history, and things like that.
Graphics cards update through the system updater, and any game that doesn't have kernel anticheat will generally just work without any extra effort from the user.