Linux Servers Under Attack for a Decade

New research has found that the Linux platform has been under attack from Chinese threat groups for a decade. 

The "Decade of the RATs Research Report," published today by BlackBerry, reveals how five Chinese APT groups targeted Linux servers, Windows systems, and mobile devices running Android in a prolonged cross-platform attack. 

Researchers said that they are confident that the APT groups "are likely comprised of civilian contractors working in the interest of the Chinese government who readily share tools, techniques, infrastructure, and targeting information with one another and their government counterparts." 

Currently, Linux runs on all of the world’s 500 fastest supercomputers, and 90% of all cloud infrastructure and 96.3% of the world's top 1 million servers run on Linux.

Historically, the Linux platform has been overlooked from a security perspective. 

"One of the main reasons there aren’t many security tools for Linux is because there are relatively few Linux machines in the world (roughly 2%), therefore it’s a tough way for companies to make money,” Eric Cornelius, chief product architect at BlackBerry, told Infosecurity Magazine.

"Security products and services are not as widely deployed for Linux platforms as they are for the more popular Windows and Mac platforms."

Cornelius added that a prevailing assumption that Linux is more secure because it is open source "is just not the case." 

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