Linux-Targeted Malware Increases by 35% in 2021 | CrowdStrike
www.crowdstrike.comCrowdStrike has observed that malware targeting Linux-based systems increased by 35% in 2021. XorDDoS, Mirai and Mozi were the most common malware families.
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Open source malware. Cool.
Fun fact: “malware as a service” is very much a booming business on the black market. Usually in the form of cryptominers/cryptostealers, adware/scamware, and ransomware. You pay to buy prepackaged malware, usually one designed to make you money as a kind of return on investment, and deploy it.
It’s the reason security researchers often find that “this new malware going around” is “similar to/a strain of/uses the same engine as this older malware”.
Linux is a very heterogeneous platform. I’d say trying to make malware compatible across distros could be quite a challenge, and not very profitable.
* me laughs in Solus
In one way, it could be argued that this has a positive side to it. As more people consider Linux adoption, malware authors are noticing that and determining that it is worth their time to write a linux version of their malware.
On the other hand, Linux systems often contain more valuable things than Windows or Mac. The average person probably doesn’t have too much valuable data on their PC, but a web server? Database server? Corporate network control node? Those are jackpots in comparison.
What statistics did they use? What is the evidence?
They count the Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and then extrapolate based on previous year how many more public samples have been deployed, leaked or released compared to the previous year, which gives you a pretty good overview.
it probably has something to do with windows 11 release ?