A new Linux backdoor is hitting US universities and governments
Universities and government offices in North America and Asia are being targeted by a brand new Linux backdoor called “Auto-color”, experts have claimed.
Linux Foundation's trust scorecards aim to battle rising open-source security threats
To address these challenges, Zemlin proposed developing a decentralized trust system, including a "trust scorecard" similar ...
Linux devices hit with even more new malware, this time from Chinese hackers
"The trend of APT groups focusing on Linux malware is becoming more noticeable,” ESET said. “We believe this shift is due to ...
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The first UEFI bootkit malware for Linux has been detected, so users beware
While all evidence points to a piece of malware that can hardly do any meaningful damage, the fact remains that bootkits made their way to Linux. And with so many devices being powered by the OS ...
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Linux, macOS users infected with malware posing as legitimate Go packages
Threat actors are typosquatting popular Go packages such as Hypert and Layout to drop malware on Linux and macOS systems. In a new typosquatting campaign, threat actors are seen using malicious Go ...
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New Auto-Color Linux backdoor targets North American govts, universities
The malware features some similarities with the Symbiote Linux malware family, which was first documented by BlackBerry in 2022, but the two are distinct from each other. Unit 42 does not have ...
Update your Wi-Fi cameras, else malware could infect your network
A recent ransomware attack was able to spread via a camera connected to a company's network. The worst part? The flaw was ...
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Raspberry Pi Malware Mines BitCoin
Linux Trojan that is a bash script containing a mining program, which is compressed with gzip and encrypted with base64. Once launched, the script shuts down several processes and installs ...
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Chinese hackers use custom malware to spy on US telecom networks
JumpedPath is a Go-based ELF binary built for x86_64 Linux-based systems that allowed ... targeted edge networking devices to install custom malware that allows them to monitor network ...
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Thousands of TP-Link routers have been infected by a botnet to spread malware
When executed, the malware establishes a command-and-control ... close (stops the module triggering function), shell (runs a Linux shell command on the local system) and killall (used to terminate ...
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These fake macOS updates are actually just looking to spread malware
Cybersecurity researchers Proofpoint recently observed two new threat actors distributing the malware, tracked as TA2726 and TA2727, working together on different parts of the same campaign to get ...
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Windows vs. macOS vs. Linux vs. ChromeOS: Which OS Rules?
Operating systems manage the web experience, and each operating system is good and bad at something. Windows, macOS, Linux, and ChromeOS are 2025 giants with va ...