Security News > 2019 > August > Hackers Planted Backdoor in Webmin, Popular Utility for Linux/Unix Servers
2019-08-20 08:48
Following the public disclosure of a critical zero-day vulnerability in Webmin last week, the project's maintainers today revealed that the flaw was not actually the result of a coding mistake made by the programmers. Instead, it was secretly planted by an unknown hacker who successfully managed to inject a backdoor at some point in its build infrastructure—that surprisingly persisted into
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