ZDNet

The best SSH clients for Linux (and why you need them)

Secure Shell (SSH) is a tool I use daily. On my local area network (LAN), I have several Linux desktops and servers I need to access at any given moment, some of which do not have graphical user ...
Ars Technica

Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach

Infrastructure used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel was infected for two years, starting in 2009, by sophisticated malware that managed to get a hold of one of the ...
TechRadar

Huge backdoor discovered that could compromise SSH logins on Linux

Microsoft employee Andres Freund has shared finding odd symptoms in the xz package on Debian installations. Freund noticed that ssh login was requiring a lot of CPU and decided to investigate leading ...
Bleeping Computer

New Plague Linux malware stealthily maintains SSH access

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 ...
GIGAZINE

Exploit ``Terrapin Attack'' that allows man-in-the-middle attacks on SSH connections is discovered

The Terrapin Attack is an attack that violates the integrity of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol by manipulating sequence numbers during the handshake process in the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, which ...
Ars Technica

What we know about the xz Utils backdoor that almost infected the world

On Friday, a lone Microsoft developer rocked the world when he revealed a backdoor had been intentionally planted in xz Utils, an open source data compression utility available on almost all ...
Bleeping Computer

New PumaBot botnet brute forces SSH credentials to breach devices

A newly discovered Go-based Linux botnet malware named PumaBot is brute-forcing SSH credentials on embedded IoT devices to deploy malicious payloads. The targeted nature of PumaBot is also evident by ...