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Stay Alert – Malware Authors Deploy ELF as Windows Loaders to Exploit WSL feature

Rutuja Mane / 4 years
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5 min read

What is WSL? The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is a resource inside the Windows operating system that allows users to execute Linux command lines on a machine running Windows operating system. The Windows Subsystem for Linux uses an application known as Bash.exe, which launches a Linux dialogue box within the Windows operating system interface. […]

CVE-2019-11815: Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel

Ganesh Lakariya / 7 years
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3 min read

Red Hat engineers and experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, which is basically a flaw while implementation of RDS (Remote desktop Protocol) over TCP. This flaw has affected Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and SUSE and security advisories have been issued for all. This flaw could enable an attacker to compromise a system […]

Cryptocurrency mining rampage throttles Linux machines – an analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

Amar Patil / 8 years
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4 min read

Quick Heal Security Labs recently came across a Linux-based Monero (XMR) miner. Monero (XMR) is one of the top 15 cryptocurrencies. It can be mined easily on any machine using its CPU computation power. This is one of the reasons why it is preferred to Bitcoin or Ethereum which are more famous than Monero. Earlier, […]

Shellshock Bug – How Does it Impact You?

Adithya Omanakuttan / 11 years
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4 min read

A new security bug has been discovered recently, and it is as big, if not bigger, than the Heartbleed bug from a few months back. This security bug is called ‘Shellshock’ and it is found in a common program that runs on UNIX and Linux operating systems. The scope of this bug is pretty huge […]