Tag: linux
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CISA Warns of Six Exploited Flaws in Microsoft, Linux, Red Hat and Citrix Products
CISA added six new bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on August 26, showing signs of active exploitation in the wild First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cisa-kev-microsoft-citrix/
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CISA Adds Six Exploited Flaws to KEV, Including NetScaler, Linux, and SQL Server Bugs
Tags: cisa, citrix, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, linux, remote-code-execution, sql, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a high-severity security vulnerability impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, citing evidence of active exploitation.The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2019-1068 – A remote code execution vulnerability in First seen on thehackernews.com Jump…
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Linux Foundation to govern TRACE specification for AI agent security
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/linux-foundation-to-govern-trace-specification-for-ai-agent-security
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14 manipulierte npm-Pakete verbreiten Linux-Backdoor RedC2 4.0
Sicherheitsforscher haben manipulierte npm-Pakete entdeckt, die sich als Kalenderwerkzeuge tarnen, jedoch eine KI-gestützte Linux-Hintertür installieren. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/linux-backdoor-npm-pakete
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SonicWall NetExtender Flaw Lets Attackers Write Arbitrary Files as Root
SonicWall has released security updates for two high-severity vulnerabilities in its NetExtender Linux Client. One of these is a path traversal flaw that could allow attackers to write arbitrary files with root privileges. The most severe issue, tracked as CVE-2026-66152, has a CVSS score of 8.8/10 and affects NetExtender Linux Client versions 10.3.5 and earlier.…
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Google Chrome 152 Patches 327 Security Flaws, Including 10 Critical Vulnerabilities
Google has released Chrome version 152 for Windows, macOS, and Linux, addressing 327 security vulnerabilities, including 10 rated as Critical. This stable-channel update is being rolled out as version 152.0.7977.64 for Linux and 152.0.7977.64/.65 for Windows and macOS. This update is significant due to the sheer number and severity of memory-safety issues fixed across Chrome’s…
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Linux Foundation Introduces TRACE Standard for AI Runtime Evidence
This new open standard offers hardware-attested runtime and compliance evidence for AI agents First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-foundation-trace-standard-ai/
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Linux Turns 35 as Open-Source Kernel Powers Global Critical Infrastructure
Linux has now reached 35 years old, serving as a reminder of the modern world’s reliance on an open-source kernel. On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki, Linus Torvalds, announced his work on the comp.os newsgroup.minix Usenet group. He introduced a free operating system for 386/486 AT clones that he…
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Linux Turns 35 as Open-Source Kernel Powers Global Critical Infrastructure
Linux has now reached 35 years old, serving as a reminder of the modern world’s reliance on an open-source kernel. On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student at the University of Helsinki, Linus Torvalds, announced his work on the comp.os newsgroup.minix Usenet group. He introduced a free operating system for 386/486 AT clones that he…
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AI-Assisted ToxNetV2 Linux Botnet Uses LLM to Generate Shell and SSH Commands
ToxNetV2, an AArch64 Linux peer-to-peer botnet, integrates a large language model into its controller workflow to turn botnet and host telemetry into proposed operational actions. The implementation connects NVIDIA NIM-hosted z-ai/glm-5.2 model output to controller-side functions including local shell execution, file writes, remote SSH commands, persistent state changes, and cross-compilation. Analysis published by Joe Reverser…
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UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that’s targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors.The vast majority of the targets are located in Brazil, Bolivia, China, Canada, and Vietnam. Details of the threat activity came to light following the discovery of an…
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RedC2 Turns Compromised Linux Machines Into SOCKS5 Proxies for Internal Network Pivoting
A cluster of trojanized npm packages is delivering the RedC2 4.0 Linux implant, providing operators with a pathway from a seemingly harmless dependency import to internal network pivoting via SOCKS5 proxies and TCP forwarding. The campaign disguises malicious code inside functional calendar and streak-calculation utilities, underscoring how supply-chain abuse can bypass controls focused only on…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 111
Tags: banking, botnet, edr, infrastructure, international, linux, malware, ransomware, spyware, windowsSecurity Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Akira Hits Safe Mode: Ransomware Rebooting Around EDR Multi-Functional Linux Botnet “Evooo1Bot” StubMaker RubyGems Campaign Delivers a Windows Infostealer Hunting MacSync Stealer infrastructure through behavioral pivots Manic: Blend between Banking Malware & Spyware […]…
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14 Trojanized npm Packages Drop RedC2 4.0 Linux Backdoor With AI-Assisted C2
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0.”When the module loads, it”¯locates”¯the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process,” TrendAI, Trend Micro’s First seen…
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UAT-10147 Compromises Web Servers to Deploy BadIIS for SEO Fraud and Data Theft
Tags: china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, finance, fraud, government, group, linux, malware, technology, theft, vulnerability, windowsA Chinese-speaking cybercrime group, tracked as UAT-10147, targeting vulnerable Windows and Linux web servers worldwide to deploy BadIIS malware, steal data, and manipulate search engine results for financial gain. Talos observed victims in Brazil, Bolivia, China, Canada, and Vietnam, spanning government, education, media, technology, and gaming organizations. An operational security lapse exposed an attacker download…
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Google Chrome 151 Update Fixes 7 Security Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution and Sandbox Escape
Google has released Chrome version 151 to the Stable channel for desktop platforms, addressing seven security vulnerabilities. Among these vulnerabilities is a critical use-after-free flaw, along with several high-severity issues affecting various components of the browser, including V8, DOM, Workers, networking, and Linux toolkit theming. The update is being rolled out as version 151.0.7922.173/.174 for…
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Security researcher enrolls Linux device in Apple’s Find My network
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/security-researcher-enrolls-linux-device-in-apples-find-my-network
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Security researcher enrolls Linux device in Apple’s Find My network
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/security-researcher-enrolls-linux-device-in-apples-find-my-network
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Security researcher enrolls Linux device in Apple’s Find My network
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/security-researcher-enrolls-linux-device-in-apples-find-my-network
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UAT-10147 deploys SPECTRE: A cross-platform implant with Linux rootkit and BYOVD capabilities
The newly identified SPECTRE implant represents an evolution in commodity intrusion tooling, integrating cross-platform C2 operations, process injection, credential theft, anti-analysis protections, and kernel-level endpoint detection and response (EDR) bypass functionality. First seen on blog.talosintelligence.com Jump to article: blog.talosintelligence.com/uat-10147-deploys-spectre-a-cross-platform-implant-with-linux-rootkit-and-byovd-capabilities/
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Exclusive: Linux Foundation’s Akrites to Go Live in September
The Linux Foundation’s Akrites initiative will become operational in September, when it will begin accepting AI-powered vulnerability reports for open-source projects First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/linux-foundations-akrites-go-live/
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New Mirai-Based Evooo1Bot Botnet Targets Linux Devices
Evooo1Bot is a Mirai-based Linux botnet that hijacks routers and IoT devices for DDoS attacks, credential theft and criminal proxy services. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs disclosed Evooo1Bot in mid-August, a previously undocumented Linux botnet that’s been active since July 2026. The bot borrows Mirai’s DDoS engine but adds encrypted command-and-control communications, an SSH brute-force scanner, a…
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Linux Botnet Evooo1Bot Expands Mirai Capabilities Well Beyond DDoS
The botnet adds exploitation modules, credential theft, and reverse SOCKS relays to turn compromised devices into persistent attacker infrastructure. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyber-risk/linux-botnet-evooo1bot-mirai-capabilities-beyond-ddos
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Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo
Mozilla has scrapped the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy of it was committed by mistake to one of the company’s own private code repositories.That key is how a user, or a Linux distribution packaging the browser, confirms a downloaded Firefox tarball came from Mozilla and was not…
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Mozilla Rotates Firefox and Thunderbird GPG Signing Key After Private GitHub Exposure
Mozilla has rotated a GPG signing subkey used to authenticate release artifacts for Firefox and Thunderbird after an unencrypted copy of the previous subkey was unintentionally committed to a private GitHub repository. The affected signing infrastructure includes selected release files, such as Linux tarballs, RPM packages, and checksum files. Mozilla’s investigation into available audit logs…
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HP ThinPro TPM Flaw Lets Attackers Bypass Full Disk Encryption and Steal LUKS Keys
A security researcher has revealed a critical design flaw in HP ThinPro versions 8 and 9, which allows attackers with physical access to a thin client’s storage drive to extract TPM-sealed LUKS disk-encryption keys. This vulnerability arises from an incomplete measured-boot policy that validates the GRUB bootloader but fails to measure the Linux kernel and…
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18-Year-Old Linux Kernel SCTP Vulnerability Lets Attackers Gain Root and Escape Containers
SCTPhantom, tracked as CVE-2026-64564, is a high-severity Linux kernel use-after-free vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration implementation. Researchers at Tencent Zhuque Lab’s Corvus AI project reported that a local attacker could leverage the flaw to escalate privileges to root and, in certain configurations, to escape from containers to the host.…
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Nearly 800 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT and Infostealer
A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems.”These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload,”…
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18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers
A use-after-free bug in Linux’s SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath.The flaw has existed since 2008. The fix already shipped: stable kernels 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101 and 6.6.148, released August 3, close it. Anyone…
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OVSwrap vulnerability allows local privilege escalation on Linux
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/ovswrap-vulnerability-allows-local-privilege-escalation-on-linux