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A recently discovered variant of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) malware is using a command and control (C&C) server on the Tor network, Trend Micro’s security researchers have discovered. read more

EvilGnome was written to target the comparatively small but committed community who use Linux on their laptops.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining malware botnet, which now also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP...

Three men who hacked U.S. computers from Romania have been sentenced to prison for a fraud scheme totaling more than $21 million, federal prosecutors in Georgia said Tuesday. read more

A German security researcher has publicly disclosed details of a severe vulnerability in one of the most popular FTP server applications, which potentially could affect over one million servers....

A security hole affecting the free and open source ProFTPD file transfer protocol (FTP) server can be exploited to copy files to vulnerable servers and possibly execute arbitrary code. read more

Lenovo, Acer and five additional server manufacturers are hit with supply-chain bugs buried in motherboard firmware.

Researchers at firmware security company Eclypsium discovered that the baseboard management controller (BMC) shipped with some servers from Lenovo, Gigabyte and other vendors contains some...


QNAPCrypt continues to spread via brute-force attacks.