Microsoft Partners Help Microsoft Spread Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt/Fear-mongering/Dramatisation About "Linux" (as Usual)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 29, 2024,
updated Dec 05, 2024

• EIN Presswire ☛ ESET Research discovers WolfsBane, new Linux cyberespionage backdoor by China-aligned Gelsemium [Ed: Mostly misinformation and distraction]

• Chinese hackers use a new Linux-based WolfsBane malware [Ed: Microsoft-connected anti-Linux FUD; distraction from the latest Microsoft security failures and blunders]

• Cyber Security News ☛ Teaching AI to Hack: Researchers Demonstrate ChatGPT’s to Ethically Hack Linux & Windows [Ed: Microsoft hype, exaggeration of capabilities in search of any use cases that aren't vapourware]

• Cyber Security News ☛ New Stealthy GodLoader Malware Attacking Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, & iOS Devices [Ed: So just don't install it; FUD from friends of Microsoft?]

• Cyber Security News ☛ Bootkitty, The First UEFI Bootkit Targeting Linux Servers [Ed: Yet more proof that 'secure boot' is about worsening security]

• Security Affairs ☛ Bootkitty is the first UEFI Bootkit designed for Linux systems [Ed: They use an illegal, monopolistic Microsoft parasite (UEFI) to badmouth Linux now]

• PC Mag ☛ 'Bootkitty' Malware Can Infect a Linux Machine's Boot Process [Ed: Microsoft's partners at ESET use a Microsoft scheme to demonise "Linux" for the second time in a week]

• Help Net Security ☛ ESET researchers analyze first UEFI bootkit for Linux systems [Ed: The Microsoft partners now use something imposed by Microsoft to make it sound like "Linux" is the problem]

• Security Week ☛ ESET Flags Prototype UEFI Bootkit Targeting Linux

• The Register UK ☛ First-ever UEFI bootkit for Linux in the works, experts say

• Bootkitty: Analyzing the first UEFI bootkit for Linux

• Bleeping Computer ☛ Researchers discover first UEFI bootkit malware for Linux

• Hacker News ☛ Researchers Discover "Bootkitty" – First UEFI Bootkit Targeting Linux Kernels

• Ars Technica ☛ Found on VirusTotal: The world’s first UEFI bootkit for Linux

Update

A day passes.

4 more about this:

• Bootkitty: The First UEFI Bootkit Built for Linux Appears!

• The first UEFI bootkit malware for Linux has been detected, so users beware

• First UEFI bootkit ever built for Linux discovered

• Just Like Windows: Linux Targeted by First-Ever UEFI Bootkit

And another day passes...

Dan Goodin has another go with this FUD:

• Code found online exploits LogoFAIL to install Bootkitty Linux backdoor

  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 unpatched on affected models.

Conflating Linux with UEFI:

• Researchers discover "Bootkitty," the first UEFI bootkit for Linux

  A serendipitous discovery led to a new warning of threats against Linux. The open-source platform is becoming an increasingly tasty target for cyber-criminals, and malware writers are now looking to get to the lowest levels of the kernel as they already have on Windows.

Now the Microsofters repeat this:

• Proving Linux is not a safe sanctuary, ESET finds first Linux-targeting UEFI bootkit malware

• Hello Bootkitty! Linux Gets A UEFI Bootkit

Less than a week passes; Microsofters at it again, another wave:

• BootKitty UEFI malware exploits LogoFAIL to infect Linux systems [Ed: Microsofters at it again]

• Linux devices are being hit by LogoFAIL vulnerability, Bootkitty installed [Ed: A variant of the old FUD]

• First-ever Linux UEFI bootkit turns out to be student project

• BootKitty Linux UEFI bootkit spotted exploiting LogoFAIL flaws

• 'Bootkitty' First Bootloader to Take Aim at Linux