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I tore apart the most common Linux malware in a sandbox, and it uses layer after layer of tricks to survive

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 ...

New Evooo1Bot Linux botnet turns routers into traffic relay nodes

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

North Korean hackers use newly discovered Linux malware to raid ATMs

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 ...
Bleeping Computer

Researchers discover first UEFI bootkit malware for Linux

The first UEFI bootkit specifically targeting Linux systems has been discovered, marking a shift in stealthy and hard-to-remove bootkit threats that previously focused on Windows. Named 'Bootkitty,' ...
CSOonline

VoidLink malware was almost entirely made by AI

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 ...
Dark Reading

Stealthy Linux 'Auto-color' Backdoor Paints US Institutions With Malware

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 ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

DaggerFly-Linked Linux Malware Targets Network Appliances

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 ...
Dark Reading

'VoidLink' Malware Poses Advanced Threat to Linux Systems

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 ...
Direct Marketing News

How CRON#TRAP malware turned trusted tech into a weapon

To learn more about our editorial approach, explore The Direct Message methodology. Imagine opening an email at work. The attachment looks routine. You click it, nothing obvious happens, and you move ...
LinuxInsider

Weaponized Python and Linux Malware Target Executives and Cloud Systems

Two newly uncovered malware campaigns are exploiting open-source software across Windows and Linux environments to target enterprise executives and cloud systems, signaling a sharp escalation in both ...
CSOonline

How ‘perfctl’ malware infected Linux servers undetected for years

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 ...