After someone noticed that logins were taking 0.8 seconds instead of the usual 0.3 seconds, he was able to stop a cyber attack in progress in Linux, but whether the plan was mass hacking or to execute a very patient and targeted attack on one single user is not clear at this time

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Nope, there is no such thing as hacking, certainly not targeted hacking and not at all in Linux. Everybody knows that you can’t hack into Linux.

And yes, it was spotted by a Microsoft developer. And Kali Linux, that’s, to take a shortcut, the hackers’ version of Linux. In case you wondered. Details in The Guardian, interestingly, with link to the related Ars Technica article. Then again, it’s quite an interesting story.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/apr/02/techscape-linux-cyber-attack

That apparent culprit’s account JiaT75 is Jia Tan’s, now suspended in GitHub (along with Lasse Collin’s @Larhzu and I assume that he is simply the other developer on this project) for anyone who this vaguely rings a bell for.

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