Collaborate Disseminate
Following the public disclosure of a critical zero-day vulnerability in Webmin last week, the project’s maintainers today revealed that the flaw was not actually the result of a coding mistake made by the programmers.
Instead, it was secretly planted … Continue reading Hackers Planted Backdoor in Webmin, Popular Utility for Linux/Unix Servers
A four-year-old severe vulnerability has been discovered in the Secure Shell (SSH) implementation library known as Libssh that could allow anyone to completely bypass authentication and gain unfettered administrative control over a vulnerable server wi… Continue reading LibSSH Flaw Allows Hackers to Take Over Servers Without Password
Security researchers have published the details and proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits of an integer overflow vulnerability in the Linux kernel that could allow an unprivileged user to gain superuser access to the targeted system.
The vulnerability, disc… Continue reading New Linux Kernel Bug Affects Red Hat, CentOS, and Debian Distributions
A 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Samba networking software that could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected Linux and Unix machines.
Samba is open-source software (re-implementation of S… Continue reading 7-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely
A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in illicit profit has finally entered a guilty plea in the United States and is going to face sentencing in August.
Maxim Senakh, 41, of Velikii No… Continue reading Hacker Who Used Linux Botnet to Send Millions of Spam Emails Pleads Guilty
A Russian man accused of infecting tens of thousands of computer servers worldwide to generate millions in illicit profit has finally entered a guilty plea in the United States and is going to face sentencing in August.
Maxim Senakh, 41, of Velikii No… Continue reading Hacker Who Used Linux Botnet to Send Millions of Spam Emails Pleads Guilty
“Linux doesn’t get viruses” — It’s a Myth.
A new Trojan has been discovered in the wild that turns Linux-based devices into proxy servers, which attackers use to protect their identity while launching cyber attacks from the hijacked systems.
Dubbed Linux.Proxy.10, the Trojan was first spotted at the end of last year by the researchers from Russian security firm Doctor Web, who later
Continue reading New Trojan Turns Thousands Of Linux Devices Into Proxy Servers