A newly discovered botnet is compromising poorly-protected Linux servers by brute-forcing weak SSH password login authentication. Researchers at Canada-based Flare Systems, who discovered the botnet, ...

The SSHStalker Linux botnet has ensnared 7,000 systems, deploying various scanners and malware, an IRC bot, and multiple kernel exploits.

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 ...

Known as VoidLink, the malware generates implant binaries designed for credential theft, data exfiltration and stealthy persistence on compromised systems. The new analysis, published by Ontinue on ...

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 ...

Two malware campaigns weaponize open-source software to target executives and cloud systems, combining social engineering ...

Accenture Cybersecurity warns over difficult to detect, “sophisticated toolset” being deployed as part of extortion campaigns ...

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 newly discovered toolkit called DKnife has been used since 2019 to hijack traffic at the edge-device level and deliver ...

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 ...

There's a "relentless" campaign on the Ubuntu app store, experts have warned ...

A newly documented Linux botnet named SSHStalker is using the IRC (Internet Relay Chat) communication protocol for command-and-control (C2) operations.