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A senior threat researcher at VMware Carbon Black identified thirty-four vulnerabilities with specific filenames in the Windows Driver Model (WDM) and Window Driver Framework (WDF) drivers.
Ransomware, cryptojacking, and a cracked version of the penetration-testing tool Cobalt Strike have increasingly targeted Linux in multicloud infrastructure, report states.
VMware researchers claim not enough effort is being spent on developing countermeasures for attacks on the cloud's most popular operating system
Its prevalence as a cloud operating system means Linux is becoming a meal ticket for malicious actors, but the security industry does not seem to have cottoned on to this yet, says VMware.
Thanks to its use on many cloud servers, Linux is a core part of the digital infrastructure. It's not surprising therefore that it's increasingly being targeted by attacks.