Security and Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation
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Cryptocurrency Mining Campaign Hits Linux Users with Go-based CHAOS Malware [Ed: This is not a problem with Linux and with Go; Linux needs to be compromised in the first place (some other way, e.g. bad password) and Go is just used to write programs; this is classic Microsoft-centric FUD]
A cryptocurrency mining attack targeting the Linux operating system also involved the use of an open source remote access trojan (RAT) dubbed CHAOS.
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Researchers smell a cryptomining Chaos RAT targeting Linux systems [Ed: They try to paint this as "open source tool" to demonise the way it is developed too]
Additionally, the open source tool can perform reverse shell on the infected system, take screenshots of the victim's device, collect info on the operating system, and download, upload or even delete files.
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Effective, Fast, and Unrecoverable: [Windows] Wiper Malware is Popping Up Everywhere
wish more articles were more clear about these viruses and malware garbage. Windows only folks. There are still ZERO viruses and stuff for linux, BSD, unix, MacOS (since they migrated to BSD based OS) and so on. And, just because people can imagine a virus for linux, it doesn't mean that it's technically feasible or even doable.
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Feature Spotlight | Announcing General Availability (GA) of Linux and K8s Agents v22.3 for Cloud Workload Security - SentinelOne
For any SentinelOne customers still running Linux or K8s agent v21.x, the resource efficiency gains alone are compelling reasons to upgrade your cloud workload protection agent to v22.1 or higher. We’ve been working with some forward-leaning customers, taking their feedback and further extending our resource efficiency. As a result, v22.1 (and higher) improves performance in 2 dimensions compared to version 21.x: 40-50% improvement in memory usage, and 40-50% improvement in CPU usage.
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Microsoft discovers Windows/Linux botnet used in DDoS attacks [Ed: There is no such thing as "Windows-Linux"; this is Microsoft spreading FUD about "Linux" yet again, as usual... boosted by its media partners (Microsoft pays Ars Technica)]
Microsoft researchers have discovered a hybrid Windows-Linux botnet that uses a highly efficient technique to take down Minecraft servers and performs distributed denial-of-service attacks on other platforms.