Category Archives: Linux

In a rather clever attack, hackers leveraged a weakness that allowed them to send a fake email that seemed delivered from Google’s systems, passing all verifications but pointing to a fraudulent page that collected logins. […] Go to Source Author: Ionut Ilascu

Three security bypasses have been discovered in Ubuntu Linux’s unprivileged user namespace restrictions, which could be enable a local attacker to exploit vulnerabilities in kernel components. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas

Kali Linux has released version 2025.1a, the first version of 2025, with one new tool, desktop changes, and a theme refresh. […] Go to Source Author: Lawrence Abrams

A previously undocumented Linux backdoor dubbed ‘Auto-Color’ was observed in attacks between November and December 2024, targeting universities and government organizations in North America and Asia. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas

Over 660,000 exposed Rsync servers are potentially vulnerable new to six new vulnerabilities, including a critical-severity heap-buffer overflow flaw that could lead to remote code execution. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas

Kali Linux has released version 2024.4, the fourth and final version of 2024, and it is now available with fourteen new tools, numerous improvements, and deprecates some features. […] Go to Source Author: Lawrence Abrams

A new Linux rootkit malware called Pumakit has been discovered that uses stealth and advanced privilege escalation techniques to hide its presence on systems. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas

The first UEFI bootkit specifically targeting Linux systems has been discovered, marking a shift in stealthy and hard-to-remove bootkit threats that previously focused on Windows. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas

Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced over 10 years ago in version 21.04. […] Go to Source Author: Bill Toulas