A recently discovered botnet under active development targets Linux systems, attempting to ensnare them into an army of bots ready to steal sensitive info, installing rootkits, creating reverse shells ...

Linux is well-known for its security advantages over many other operating systems, but that doesn’t mean it’s immune to problems. A Linux kernel flaw first discovered earlier this month, for example, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Admit it: the first thing you think of when ransomware is ...

Researchers have discovered malicious code circulating in the wild that hijacks the earliest stage boot process of Linux devices by exploiting a year-old firmware vulnerability when it remains ...

A local privilege escalation of (LPE) vulnerability in the software used to handle authorizations — and installed by default — on most major distributions of Linux is trivial to exploit, with one ...

Google will pay between $20,000 and $91,337 to researchers who create exploits of vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel, the Kubernetes container management system, and Google Cloud's Kubernetes Engine.

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 ...