this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2024
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Researchers believe the shift to Linux malware is due to improvements in Windows endpoint security. As a result, threat actors are exploring new attack avenues, increasingly focusing on exploiting flaws in internet-facing systems, most of which run on Linux.

I don‘t get the reasoning here… these servers ran Linux before so what has that to do with Windows endpoints?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Windows is harder, so less valuable to spend time on.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Windows is harder, so less valuable to spend time on.

lol.

No, it’s because the article is using clickbait and the world’s infrastructure mostly runs on Linux, not windows servers.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 16 hours ago

That is what the article says. Windows is definitely becoming a harder target and Linux is becoming way more common.

Linux's customisability and use of a huge range of different softwares means there's likely to be many more attack vectors.

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 14 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Next week in news: After Russia, Chinese next to get banned from Linux.

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 13 hours ago

I see that as a possibility but not because they are writing malware

Also China is a much bigger country compared to Russia so there would be a big loss.