Security News > 2021 > August > Trend Micro's Linux Threat Report identifies the most vulnerable distributions and biggest security headaches

Analysts reviewed 13 million security incidents and found that end-of-life versions of Linux distributions were at the biggest risk.

Linux now has been around long enough that old versions are causing security problems, according to a new report from Trend Micro.

Security analysts found that 44% of security breach detections came from CentOS versions 7.4 to 7.9, followed by CloudLinux Server, which had more than 40% of the detections, and Ubuntu with almost 7%. CentOS 7 was first released in June 2014 and full support ended in August 2019.

Coin Miners: 25%. Web shells: 20%. Ransomware: 12%. Trojans: 10%. Others: 3%. About 40% of the detections came from the U.S., followed by Thailand and Singapore with 19% and 14%. The data from the report comes from Trend Micro's monitoring data from its security products and from honeypots, sensors, anonymized telemetry and other backend services.

The report found that brute-force, directory traversal and request smuggling attacks are the three most prevalent non-OWASP security risks.

The report also reviewed security threats to containers and identified total vulnerabilities for the 15 most popular official Docker images on Docker Hub.

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