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Linux Mint 20.3 released promising security updates until 2025

Linux Mint has released version 20.3, codenamed ‘Una,’ as a long-term support version that will receive security updates until 2025. […]

17 Dec

TellYouThePass ransomware revived in Linux, Windows Log4j attacks

Threat actors have revived an old and relatively inactive ransomware family known as TellYouThePass, deploying it in attacks against Windows and Linux devices targeting a critical remote code execution bug in the Apache Log4j library. […]

13 Dec

Attackers can get root by crashing Ubuntu’s AccountsService

A local privilege escalation security vulnerability could allow attackers to gain root access on Ubuntu systems by exploiting a double-free memory corruption bug in GNOME’s AccountsService component. […]

02 Nov

Microsoft Edge for Linux out of beta, now generally available

Microsoft announced today that the Chromium-based Edge web browser is now generally available on the Linux platform via the stable channel. […]

29 Oct

Hive ransomware now encrypts Linux and FreeBSD systems

The Hive ransomware gang now also encrypts Linux and FreeBSD using new malware variants specifically developed to target these platforms. […]

15 Oct

Canonical launches Ubuntu 21.10 for desktop and server

The latest version of the world’s most popular Linux distribution, Ubuntu 21.10, codenamed ‘Impish Indy’, has landed on Canonical’s download channels. […]

30 Jul

Windows 10 now lets you install WSL with a single command

Microsoft says the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) can now be installed on Windows 10, version 2004 or later using a single terminal command. […]

20 Jul

New Linux kernel bug lets you get root on most modern distros

Unprivileged attackers can gain root privileges by exploiting a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in default configurations of the Linux Kernel’s filesystem layer on vulnerable devices. […]

28 Jun

REvil ransomware’s new Linux encryptor targets ESXi virtual machines

The REvil ransomware operation is now using a Linux encryptor that targets and encrypts Vmware ESXi virtual machines. […]

04 May

Critical 21Nails Exim bugs expose millions of servers to attacks

Newly discovered critical vulnerabilities in the Exim message transfer agent (MTA) software allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and gain root privilege on mail servers with default or common configurations. […]

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