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Linux administrators are being urged to patch four newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities, collectively known as DirtyAH6, TUNderflow, PPPoEject, and DiagSpill. These vulnerabilities can allow attackers to corrupt kernel memor…
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Chinese-speaking threat actors are continuing to rely on Noodle RAT, a cross-platform remote access trojan designed to maintain covert access to compromised Windows workstations and Linux servers. Also tracked as ANGRYREBEL and Nood RAT, the malware ha…
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Acronis has released an urgent security update for a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting its Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM on Linux. The company confirmed that attackers have already exploited this flaw in limited, tar…
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Security researchers have disclosed a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel related to the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) zero-copy send path. This vulnerability could let an unprivileged local attacker gain root privileges. It …
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A large-scale Redis cryptojacking operation targets thousands of exposed Linux servers by abusing unauthenticated Redis deployments to install XMRig cryptocurrency miners and establish durable, cron-based persistence. The campaign scans IPv4 address ra…
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A newly identified ransomware-as-a-service operation, Panzer, has surfaced with advertised payload support for Windows, Linux, VMware ESXi and FreeBSD, positioning it as a cross-platform threat to enterprise and virtualized environments. The group’s ra…
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A newly analyzed Linux malware sample, dubbed Tengu, combines Mirai-style botnet tradecraft with broad persistence, DDoS, SSH probing, and proxy capabilities. The stripped 32-bit ELF masquerades as a Linux kernel worker process while targeting servers,…
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A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster linked to the Earth Berberoka threat actor has compromised Brazilian government and educational web servers to conduct large-scale SEO poisoning and online-gambling fraud. The operation has been active since mid-20…
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Linux has now reached 35 years old, serving as a reminder of the modern world’s reliance on an open-source kernel. On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki, Linus Torvalds, announced his work on the comp.os newsgroup.mini…
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ToxNetV2, an AArch64 Linux peer-to-peer botnet, integrates a large language model into its controller workflow to turn botnet and host telemetry into proposed operational actions. The implementation connects NVIDIA NIM-hosted z-ai/glm-5.2 model output …
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