One thing Linux fans have always loved to tout over Windows was its security. While Windows has had lots of high-profile security breaches, Linux has also had its share of malware attacks, putting the ...

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.

A threat actor uploaded malicious packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) that impersonated two popular helper tools, yay and paru.

One of the more common myths floating around is that Linux is somehow more secure than Windows or macOS, which is simply not true. The truth is, Linux has had a ton of vulnerabilities and exploits; it ...

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 ...

An advanced cloud-first malware framework targeting Linux systems was created almost entirely by artificial intelligence (AI), a move that signals significant evolution in the use of the technology to ...

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,' ...

REMnux, a specialized Linux distribution for malware analysis, has released version 8 with a rebuilt platform based on Ubuntu 24.04 and a new capability aimed at connecting AI agents directly to its ...

A newly discovered Linux backdoor called Plague evades detection by traditional antivirus tools. It embeds itself in the system’s PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) to bypass SSH login security.

Employing a methodical approach to examining areas of the compromised system that are most likely to contain traces of malware installation and use increases the chances that all traces of a ...