Kaspersky has released a new virus removal tool named KVRT for the Linux platform, allowing users to scan their systems and remove malware and other known threats for free. […]
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The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two vulnerabilities in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a Linux kernel privilege elevation flaw. […]
A malware botnet known as ‘Ebury’ has infected almost 400,000 Linux servers since 2009, with roughly 100,000 still compromised as of late 2023. […]
Researchers have demonstrated the “first native Spectre v2 exploit” for a new speculative execution side-channel flaw that impacts Linux systems running on many modern Intel processors. […]
Firmware security firm Binarly has released a free online scanner to detect Linux executables impacted by the XZ Utils supply chain attack, tracked as CVE-2024-3094. […]
A sophisticated backdoor designed to undermine SSH authentication has been discovered in the widely-used xz Utils compression library. Security researchers averted a potential supply chain disaster when the malicious code was found in beta releases of Fedora Rawhide and Debian’s testing and experimental branches. A recently discovered backdoor in the xz Utils compression tool (versions […]
A vulnerability has been discovered in the ‘util-linux’ library that could allow unprivileged users to put arbitrary text on other users’ terminals using the ‘wall’ command. […]
On Wednesday, the KDE team warned Linux users to exercise “extreme caution” when installing global themes, even from the official KDE Store, because these themes run arbitrary code on devices to customize the desktop’s appearance. […]
On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux zero-day vulnerabilities and exploit chains to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car. […]
A new destructive malware named AcidPour was spotted in the wild, featuring data-wiper functionality and targeting Linux x86 IoT and networking devices. […]