A newly discovered Linux backdoor called Plague evades detection by traditional antivirus tools. It embeds itself in the system’s PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) to bypass SSH login security.

Security researchers have discovered an unusually evasive Linux backdoor, undetected even by VirusTotal, compromising systems as a malicious pluggable authentication module (PAM). Dubbed “Plague” by ...

A newly discovered Linux malware, which has evaded detection for over a year, allows attackers to gain persistent SSH access and bypass authentication on compromised systems. Nextron Systems security ...

A cryptomining operation has been observed abandoning root access on compromised Linux servers in favor of impersonating low-privileged users, a deliberate downgrade designed to avoid the alerts that ...