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So how long until exploit toolkits include plugins for fully automated xz-backdoor-style social engineering and project takeover?


That is EXACTLY what came to mind for me.

Terrifying thought. Fatigue of maintaining OSS is what was exploited in that takeover attack. Employing a bot army to fan this sort of attack out at scale?

Social ddos'ing.




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