Top 15 Vulnerabilities Attackers Exploited Millions of Times to Hack Linux Systems

Top 15 Vulnerabilities Attackers Exploited Millions of Times to Hack Linux Systems
August 23, 2021
https://thehackernews.com/2021/08/top-15-vulnerabilities-attackers.html

Trend Micro: Linux Threat Report 2021 1H

 

Linux is a failure on the desktop but it powers Internet servers.

Microsoft now has its own custom server distro.

 

How do you mean?

 

This article on The Hacker News and the Trend Micro report are questionable to say the least.

The Trend Micro report writes:

Then they present various vulnerabilities (with their CVEs) - but inspecting them confirms that they do not represent a specific "Linux" vulnerability but vulnerabilities of some software, namely webserver software like Apache or Nginx running not only but mainly on Linux systems. None of them affected the Linux kernel.

I haven't looked at every vulnerability in that list in detail but at some of them - and in every case the mentioned vulnerability was fixed long ago and shortly after the vulnerability had been reported.

Is that mentioned in that article or in the report? No, it isn't. On the contrary, they make the naive reader believe that these vulnerabilities still exist (as not being fixed) and vaguely swagger about "vulnerabilities in Linux systems". If they had written that all operating systems (including Linux) and software running on them can be affected by vulnerabilities which makes it absolutely necessary to always and timely apply updates - that would be okay.

Instead they chose to spread FUD - in order to sell their "security solutions".

 

The "spreading FUD" agenda seems to be the main theme in many of these types of articles.

 

It's like I've said repeatedly; security companies are using FUD to promulgate a 'Windows mentality' in Unix users. M$ has done a lot in recent years to make the integrally insecure Windows more secure. Primarily by bundling an effective AV with Windows in recent years. This has hit the security companies hard. So macOS and Linux users are seen as a new source of revenue. But first you have to wave the FUD bogeyman about a bit.

Oh yeah, Linux isn't a failure on my desktop lol.

 

Neither is it on mine But I think @NormanF was talking about the Linux market share on desktop computers.

 

Yeah, but the seven or eight people around the world who run Linux don't think of it as a failure.

 

It hasn't penetrated the desktop market like Windows but every server in the world runs Linux.

 

I thought you meant that. Just seeking clarification MX-19.4 is so far pretty amazing running from my pen drive.