There's a common misconception that Linux is somehow immune to malware. It's not hard to see why people think that; Linux's market share on the desktop is small, and the kind of people who run Linux ...

In the beginning, North Korean hackers compromised the banking infrastructure running AIX, IBM’s proprietary version of Unix. Next, they hacked infrastructure running Windows. Now, the state-backed ...

Check Point Research says the Linux malware framework was authored largely through AI-driven processes, lowering the barrier to producing complex threats. VoidLink, the high-impact Linux malware ...

A cryptomining malware dubbed perfctl has infected thousands of Linux machines in the last few years. Researchers at cloud security vendor Aqua Security say it has the potential to impact many more.

AI-assisted malware named Koske is hidden inside panda images, silently hijacking Linux machines for crypto mining while evading detection. Hackers are embedding AI-generated malware hidden inside ...

A new Mirai-based modular Linux botnet malware called Evooo1Bot has been targeting internet-facing gateway devices, turning ...

A new malware strain, ELF/Sshdinjector.A!tr, has been linked to the DaggerFly espionage group and used in the Lunar Peek campaign to target Linux-based network appliances. Its primary function is data ...

Attackers are wielding a novel Linux backdoor against the education and public sectors in the US and Asia that demonstrates particularly stealthy ways to avoid both detection and deletion from a ...

Linux systems may soon be facing a new threat with an advanced, cloud-first malware framework developed by China-affiliated actors that's aimed at establishing persistent access to cloud and container ...

Exploiting a catalog of 20,000 misconfigurations to infect Linux servers, the cryptomining malware has gone largely undetected through use of process masquerading but appears capable of more. Security ...