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Cybersecurity Experts Warn of Emerging Threat of "Black Basta" Ransomware

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The Black Basta ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) syndicate has amassed nearly 50 victims in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand within two months of its emergence in the wild, making it a prominent threat in a short window.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 01, 2022

Microsoft Warning: This Malware that Targets Linux Just Got a Big Update

Microsoft warns over recent work by the '8220' malware gang to compromise Linux systems and install cryptomining malware.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jul 01, 2022

Akamai Warns Of "Panchan" Linux Botnet That Leverages Golang Concurrency, Systemd

Akamai Security Research is lifting the public embargo on "Panchan", a new peer-to-peer botnet they are warning customers about that has been breaching Linux servers since March.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 20, 2022

HelloXD Ransomware Installing Backdoor on Targeted Windows and Linux Systems

Windows and Linux systems are being targeted by a ransomware variant called HelloXD, with the infections also involving the deployment of a backdoor to facilitate persistent remote access to infected hosts.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 17, 2022

New Syslogk Linux Rootkit Lets Attackers Remotely Command It Using "Magic Packets"

A new covert Linux kernel rootkit named Syslogk has been spotted under development in the wild and cloaking a malicious payload that can be remotely commandeered by an adversary using a magic network traffic packet.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 16, 2022

New Peer-to-Peer Botnet Infects Linux Servers with Cryptominers

A new peer-to-peer botnet named Panchan appeared in the wild around March 2022, targeting Linux servers in the education sector to mine cryptocurrency.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 15, 2022

New Syslogk Linux Rootkit Uses Magic Packets to Trigger Backdoor

A new Linux rootkit malware named ‘Syslogk’ is being used in attacks to hide malicious processes, using specially crafted "magic packets" to awaken a backdoor laying dormant on the device.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 13, 2022

New Ultra-Stealthy Linux Backdoor Isn’t Your Everyday Malware Discovery

Researchers have unearthed a discovery that doesn’t occur all that often in the realm of malware: a mature, never-before-seen Linux backdoor that uses novel evasion techniques to conceal its presence on infected servers, in some cases even with a forensic investigation.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 11, 2022

New Linux-Based Ransomware Targets VMware Servers

Security researchers have discovered some new Linux-based ransomware that's being used to attack VMware ESXi servers, a bare-metal hypervisor for creating and running several virtual machines (VMs) that share the same hard drive storage. Called Cheerscrypt, the bad app is following in the footsteps of other ransomware programs—such as LockBit, Hive and RansomEXX—that have found ESXi an efficient way to infect many computers at once with malicious payloads.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 09, 2022

New Linux Malware Symbiote is "Nearly Impossible to Detect"

A group of cybersecurity researchers from BlackBerry and Intezer discovered a new Linux malware that, according to the companies, would be “nearly impossible to detect.”

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 09, 2022

Linux version of Black Basta ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers

Black Basta is the latest ransomware gang to add support for encrypting VMware ESXi virtual machines (VMs) running on enterprise Linux servers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 09, 2022

XorDdos malware is targeting Linux and putting millions of devices at risk

Linux systems are becoming prime targets for the XorDdos malware, a new report claims.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 01, 2022

Hackers Could Turn Windows Subsystem for Linux into a Secret Weapon

The number of malware strains targeting WSL is growing.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 01, 2022

EnemyBot Linux Botnet Now Exploits Web Server, Android and CMS Vulnerabilities

A nascent Linux-based botnet named Enemybot has expanded its capabilities to include recently disclosed security vulnerabilities in its arsenal to target web servers, Android devices, and content management systems (CMS).

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Jun 01, 2022

New ‘Cheers’ Linux ransomware targets VMware ESXi servers

A new ransomware named ‘Cheers’ has appeared in the cybercrime space and has started its operations by targeting vulnerable VMware ESXi servers.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 26, 2022

Malicious PyPI package opens backdoors on Windows, Linux, and Macs

Yet another malicious Python package has been spotted in the PyPI registry performing supply chain attacks to drop Cobalt Strike beacons and backdoors on Windows, Linux, and macOS systems.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 24, 2022

Microsoft: This botnet is growing fast and hunting for servers with weak passwords

Protect your Linux servers from XorDdos, a botnet scanning the internet for SSH servers with weak passwords, Microsoft warns.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 23, 2022

BPFdoor: Stealthy Linux malware bypasses firewalls for remote access

A recently discovered backdoor malware called BPFdoor has been stealthily targeting Linux and Solaris systems without being noticed for more than five years.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 16, 2022

BPFDoor: Chinese tool almost undetected for FIVE years is second BPF-based attack uncovered this year

Researchers have uncovered a highly-evasive Chinese surveillance tool using the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF). The malware, dubbed BPFDoor, is present on “thousands” of Linux systems, its controller has gone almost completely unnoticed by endpoint protection vendors despite it being in use for at least five years.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
May 10, 2022

Hive ransomware ports its Linux VMware ESXi encryptor to Rust

The Hive ransomware operation has converted their VMware ESXi Linux encryptor to the Rust programming language and added new features to make it harder for security researchers to snoop on victim's ransom negotiations.

LinuxSecurity.com Team
Mar 30, 2022

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