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Linux Backdoors Impersonate Email Security Tools to Evade Detection in Korea and Taiwan

Linux backdoors targeting telecom and network appliances in South Korea and Taiwan have been disguising their traffic as email services […]

Swati KhandelwalSep 22, 2026Vulnerability / Virtualization A new flaw in the Linux kernel’s KVM virtualization code for ARM64 processors can […]

Vernet’s patch instead monitors cores to look for situations where a busy thread would benefit from an improved clock rate. […]

The widespread introduction of AI-powered coding tools has led to some dramatic splits between those integrating those tools into their […]

A Linux vulnerability that allows untrusted virtual machines to gain root access to host machines is one of two high-severity […]

Swati KhandelwalJun 26, 2026Linux / Vulnerability A flaw in the Linux kernel’s traffic-control subsystem can let a local unprivileged user […]

Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts […]

When a verdict map is deleted from memory, catchall elements are deactivated and a chain’s reference counter is decremented. When […]

Access to TV OS’s source code could allow users to limit ads, tracking. Credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images Credit: […]

Both privilege escalation vulnerabilities stem from bugs in the kernel’s handling of page caches stored in memory, allowing untrusted users […]