Security News > 2020 > April > China-Linked Hackers Systematically Targeted Linux Servers for Years
Successfully conducting cross-platform attacks targeting Linux, Windows and Android devices, the adversaries have been engaged in both financially motivated and targeted espionage attacks.
For years, these groups have been strategically targeting Linux servers across a broad range of industry verticals, exploiting the immature defensive coverage within the environment and the inadequate use of endpoint protection and endpoint detection and response products, BlackBerry notes.
The targeting of Linux systems, BlackBerry argues, is significant because the platform dominates the backend infrastructure of large modern data centers and powers roughly all of the most advanced supercomputers in the world.
This always-on, always-available nature of Linux servers has allowed the attackers to establish an operations beachhead in the targeted networks, while remaining virtually undetected for almost a decade, the security researchers say.
Other threat actors target Linux as well, but Linux malware is overall rare compared to the sheer volume of malicious tools targeting Windows and MacOS operating systems.