Researchers uncover SSHStalker, an IRC botnet exploiting legacy Linux flaws and SSH servers to build persistent covert access.

ESET researchers have recently discovered a new Linux backdoor, named WolfsBane, that is being used by the China-aligned Gelsemium APT group. This is the first known instance of Gelsemium using Linux ...

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

On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed 19 zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows 11, Tesla, Ubuntu Linux and other devices and software to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car.

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, ...

Here's a delicious Byte of information for you. A proof of concept program on Linux was coded to exploit a known bug in how the Linux Kernel (versions 2.6.39 ...

Several vulnerabilities can be chained together to remotely register rogue printers and execute commands as root on many Linux systems. A security researcher has developed an exploit that leverages ...

Threat actors have been observed exploiting unpatched Atlassian servers and deploying a Linux variant of Cerber ransomware, also known as C3RB3R. The attacks capitalize on CVE-2023-22518, a critical ...

Unearthed sample likely works against Linux devices from Acer, HP, Fujitsu, and Lenovo. Machines vulnerable to the exploit include some models sold by Acer, HP, Fujitsu, and Lenovo when they ship with ...

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-32463) in the sudo package that enables the execution of commands with root-level privileges on Linux operating systems. The U.S.

Shellshock continues to reverberate: Attackers are exploiting recently discovered vulnerabilities in the Bash command-line interpreter in order to infect Linux servers with a sophisticated malware ...