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Malware targets the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
[German]Security researchers from Lumen's Black Lotus Labs have come across several malware samples that can infect the Windows subsystem for Linux and then switch to the native Windows environment. Experts had outlined this scenario back in 2017. Thus, the Microsoft … Continue reading
Patch Microsoft Azure vulnerabilities OMIGOD in Linux VMs
[German]Those responsible for Linux VMs under Microsoft Azure need to react immediately. Management agents have been silently installed, that have RCE and LPE vulnerabilities. The vulnerability, called OMIGOD, must be patched manually because there is no Azure update mechanism.
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Tagged Azure, Linux, Patchday 9.2021, Security, Update
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LemonDuck and LemonCat malware boost activity
[German]LemonDuck and LemonCat is malware that both acts as a bot and mines crypto-money. LemonDuck can run on different platforms (Linux, Windows), threatening machines on corporate networks. According to Microsoft, this malware has been poorly documented so far, which is … Continue reading
Sequoia: LPE Vulnerability CVE-2021-33909 in Linux
[German]Security researchers from Qualsys have discovered a Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerability CVE-2021-33909 in the filesystem layer of the Linux kernel. In addition, a second vulnerability CVE-2021-33910 has been discovered. Linux distributions such as Debian, Fedora and Ubuntu are vulnerable … Continue reading
Linux Mint 20.2
[German]The team of maintainers of Linux Mint have just announced the availability of Mint 20.2. Linux Mint 20.2 (Uma) is a Long-Term Support release that will be supported until 2025. It comes with updated software and brings refinements and many … Continue reading
Why ISL Online: Critical factors when choosing a remote desktop solution
[Sponsored Post]In the rapidly evolving IT world, choosing the right remote desktop software is critical for organizations that value security, ease of use and reliability. One provider of secure remote access that has been on the market since 2001 is ISL Online, which presents some considerations for choosing such software below. More ...
DarkRadiation Ransomware targets Linux (Red Hat, Debian & Co.)
[German]A ransomware called DarkRadiation targets Linux systems from Red Hat, CentOS or Debian-based distributions. Security vendor Trend Micro points this out in a new blog post. The malware does so using tools to detect the environment and then spread laterally … Continue reading
Microsoft switches internally to Linux
Microsoft internally wants to change its systems (servers, but also clients) to Linux in the medium future. So Windows will be phased out in the long run – they are only considering to port a part of the GUI and … Continue reading
Linux OS secretly installs Microsoft repo on Raspberry Pi
[German]Nasty story or technical necessary? In the Raspberry Pi community, there is a shit storm, after an update of the Raspbian operating system secretly installed a Microsoft repo. This repo triggers a ping on a Microsoft server with every update.
Linux: Bug in Sudo allows privilege escalation
[German]Security researchers at Qualsys have discovered a vulnerability (CVE-2021-3156) in the BSD/Linux Sudo command. Due to a heap overflow, attackers with normal privileges could achieve privilege escalation to root. However, updates for the vulnerability are now available from major Linux … Continue reading
Linux Mint: Chromium back in the repository
[German]The head of the Mint project, Clem Lefebvre, announced in the October 2020 news that the Chromium browser (base of Google Chrome) has now been added to the official repositories for both Linux Mint and LMDE (package name in Linux … Continue reading