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.

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

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

LKRG is a loadable kernel module designed to protect the Linux kernel at runtime. Instead of relying solely on compile-time ...

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 ...

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 ...