Linux-operated botnet Distributed Denial of Service attacks surged in this year’s second quarter, due to growing interest in targeting Chinese servers, according to a Kaspersky Lab report released this week. South Korea kept its top ranking for having the most command-and-control servers. Brazil, Italy and Israel ranked among the leaders behind South Korea for hosting C&C servers, according to Kaspersky Lab. DDoS attacks affected resources in 70 countries, with targets in China absorbing 77 percent of all attacks.
It is true that any operating systems need some kind of protection regardless of how secure they are by design but I would say that in Linux case, the fact that it is more popular in businesses makes it more vulnerable to insider threats. Linux users have access to privileged information and they can transfer files on different removable devices or to online apps and, without monitoring who is transferring what data and blocking sensitive file transfers, data breaches are imminent. Data Loss Prevention for Linux is an additional security solution to implement on Linux servers and workstations.
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Linux Botnets on a Rampage
Posted by: Jack M. Germain August 5, 2016 05:00 AMLinux-operated botnet Distributed Denial of Service attacks surged in this year’s second quarter, due to growing interest in targeting Chinese servers, according to a Kaspersky Lab report released this week. South Korea kept its top ranking for having the most command-and-control servers. Brazil, Italy and Israel ranked among the leaders behind South Korea for hosting C&C servers, according to Kaspersky Lab. DDoS attacks affected resources in 70 countries, with targets in China absorbing 77 percent of all attacks.