Trend Micro has published a list of the top threats and most attacked vulnerabilities for Linux in the first half of 2021. The results were obtained from honeypots, sensors and anonymous telemetry. In total, the company recorded about 15,000,000 malicious events targeting Linux-based cloud environments and estimates that miners and ransomware account for 54% of… Continue reading Experts list 15 most attacked Linux vulnerabilities
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New vulnerabilities help to bypass protection from Specter on Linux systems
On Monday, March 29th, security researchers uncovered two vulnerabilities in Linux distributions that help to bypass protection from speculative attacks like Specter and extract sensitive information from kernel memory. Vulnerabilities CVE-2020-27170 and CVE-2020-27171 (5.5 out of 10 on the CVSS severity scale) were discovered by Symantec Threat Hunter Pyotr Krysiuk and affect all versions of… Continue reading New vulnerabilities help to bypass protection from Specter on Linux systems
DreamBus botnet attacks corporate applications on Linux servers
Zscaler analysts reported about the new DreamBus botnet that attacks corporate applications on Linux servers. It is a variation of the SystemdMiner malware that appeared back in 2019. DreamBus has received a number of improvements over SystemdMiner. For example, the botnet mainly targets enterprise applications running on Linux systems, including PostgreSQL, Redis, Hadoop YARN, Apache… Continue reading DreamBus botnet attacks corporate applications on Linux servers
Linus Torvalds doubts that Linux will run on Apple M1
Recently on the Real World Technologies forum Linus Torvalds was asked what he thinks of Apple’s new M1 laptops. Torvalds then vague replied, “I would love to have this [laptop] if ran on Linux.” Then, not everyone understood what exactly Torvalds saw as the problem, and now, in an interview with ZDNet journalists, the Linux… Continue reading Linus Torvalds doubts that Linux will run on Apple M1