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Malware that affects the Linux operating system
Linux malware includes computer viruses, trojan horses, worms and other types of malware that affect the Linux family of operating systems. Linux, Unix
Linux_malware
Antivirus software for Linux
Linux Malware Detect, abbreviated as LMD or maldet, is a software package that looks for malware on Linux systems and reports on it. To protect Linux
Linux_Malware_Detect
2016 computer malware for Linux
Mirai (from the Japanese word for "future", 未来) is malware that turns networked devices running Linux into remotely controlled bots that can be used as
Mirai_(malware)
Malware package
managed to infiltrate machines that were infected by the malware and issue a command ordering the malware to delete itself. In the operation, codenamed Medusa
Turla_(malware)
UEFI malware
is a bootkit ELF malware that hijacks the UEFI on Linux systems by using a malicious EFI booter and is the first ever bootkit for Linux systems. It was
BootKitty
2016 computer malware
BASHLITE – another notable IoT malware Denial-of-service attack Linux malware Linux.Darlloz – another notable IoT malware Remaiten - another IoT DDoS bot
Hajime_(malware)
Rolling release Linux distribution
Arch Linux (/ɑːrtʃ/) is an open source, rolling release Linux distribution. Arch Linux is kept up-to-date by regularly updating the individual pieces
Arch_Linux
Malware that secures infected devices
Linux.Wifatch is an open-source piece of malware which has been noted for not having been used for malicious actions, instead attempting to secure devices
Linux.Wifatch
Linux trojan malware with rootkit capabilities
XOR DDoS is a Linux Trojan malware with rootkit capabilities that was used to launch large-scale DDoS attacks. Its name stems from the heavy usage of XOR
Xor_DDoS
Malware for Linux
Linux Spike Trojan malware, more widely known as MrBlack, is a type of malware that infects routers, and eventually spreads to other routers. Incapsula
Linux_Spike_Trojan_malware
Malware strain
Gayfemboy is a malware strain that infects corporate electronics including those from DrayTek, TP-Link, Raisecom, and Cisco by utilizing CVEs. It has
Gayfemboy
Ransomware Trojan targeting Linux
Discovered on November 5, 2015, by Dr. Web, this malware affected at least tens of Linux users. Linux.Encoder.1 is remotely executed on the victim's computer
Linux.Encoder
Software to protect against malicious software
(abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is software intended to prevent, detect, and remove malware. Antivirus software was originally developed
Antivirus_software
2014 computer malware
Gafgyt, Lizkebab, PinkSlip, Qbot, Torlus and LizardStresser) is malware which infects Linux systems in order to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks
BASHLITE
2016 computer malware for Linux
Remaiten is malware which infects Linux on embedded systems by brute forcing using frequently used default username and passwords combinations from a
Remaiten
Malicious software
algorithm Facebook malware File binder Identity theft Industrial espionage Linux malware Malvertising Phishing Point-of-sale malware Hacktivism Riskware
Malware
Computer worm for Linux IoT devices
Botnet Mirai (malware) BASHLITE Remaiten Linux.Wifatch Hajime (malware) Casad, Joe (December 3, 2013). "New Worm Attacks Linux Devices". Linux Magazine. Retrieved
Linux.Darlloz
Software tool
spread malware on Linux devices from 2020 to 2022. Other download managers have been noted to contain advertisements, be identified as malware by antivirus
Download_manager
Backdoor malware that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris
Kobalos is a type of backdoor malware that runs on Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris. The malware has been targeting supercomputers, especially those used in
Kobalos_(malware)
Ubuntu or Debian-based Linux distribution
with a modified version containing malware. The hackers also breached the database of the website's user forum. Linux Mint immediately took its server offline
Linux_Mint
Linux computer worm
vulnerable hosts and use the compiled program to exploit a known OpenSSL vulnerability.[which?] Linux malware F-Secure's Website: Linux/Devnull v t e
Devnull
Operating system for mobile devices
later for other devices, such as TVs), based on a modified version of the Linux kernel and other open-source software. First released in 2008, Android is
Android_(operating_system)
Computer malware timeline
surveillance.[citation needed] The BASHLITE malware is leaked leading to a massive spike in DDoS attacks. Linux.Wifatch is revealed to the general public
Timeline_of_malware
Download manager for Windows, Linux and macOS
It was found that the website freedownloadmanager.org was spreading Linux malware for over three years until 2022. Researchers discovered that the site
Free_Download_Manager
Chaos is a malware that infects Windows, Linux and FreeBSD devices. It is written in the Go programming language. It was discovered by Black Lotus Labs
Chaos_(malware)
Computer operating system
6, 2007. Retrieved April 22, 2007. Andy Patrizio (April 27, 2006). "Linux Malware On The Rise". InternetNews. QuinStreet. Archived from the original on
Microsoft_Windows
Linux computer virus
Boza. Linux malware "Staog". The Virus Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 2012-12-18. Retrieved 2025-09-19. Staog is the first Linux virus.
Staog
list of known FreeBSD malware: Chaos is a malware that infects Windows, Linux and FreeBSD devices Hive, ransomware that encrypts Linux and FreeBSD systems
List_of_FreeBSD_malware
Software designed to enable access to unauthorized locations in a computer
Compromises In Linux". Symantec. Archived from the original on 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2010-11-23. Osborne, Charlie (September 17, 2019). "Skidmap malware buries
Rootkit
Community-supported Linux distribution
openSUSE ( /ˌoʊpənˈsuːzə/) is a free and open-source Linux distribution developed by the openSUSE Project. It is offered in two main variations: Tumbleweed
OpenSUSE
Type of malware
In computing, a trojan horse or trojan is a kind of malware that misleads users as to its true intent by disguising itself as a normal program. Trojans
Trojan_horse_(computing)
Unix-based computer security tool
Host-based intrusion detection system comparison Hardening (computing) Linux malware Rootkit "A way to detect the rootkits and exploits in CentOS/RHEL".
Rkhunter
Malicious software used in ransom demands
Ransomware is a type of malware that takes the private data of a victim hostage until a ransom is paid. This can involve encryption of the data, and/or
Ransomware
Cybercrime organization
beginning of "Operation Troy". This attack utilized the Mydoom and Dozer malware to launch a large-scale, but quite unsophisticated, DDoS attack against
Lazarus_Group
Cryptocurrency mining malware
mining malware collected from a series of stolen National Security Agency (NSA) exploits, released by the Shadow Brokers group on both Windows and Linux machines
Zealot_Campaign
Russian state-created malware toolkit
(Russian: дроворуб, "woodcutter") is a software toolkit for developing malware for the Linux operating system. It was created by the 85th Main Special Service
Drovorub
Open-source antivirus software
software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses. It is developed by Cisco Talos and licensed under version
ClamAV
Linux computer virus
infection to occur under the root user, the risk is listed as minimal. Linux malware "Linux/Bliss | F-Secure Labs". www.f-secure.com. "Debian -- Security Information
Bliss_(computer_virus)
Antivirus solution
protect users from malware and is primarily designed for computers running Microsoft Windows and macOS, although a version for Linux is available for business
Kaspersky_Anti-Virus
Unfixed software vulnerability
target's systems, for such purposes as disrupting operations, installing malware, or exfiltrating data. Researchers Lillian Ablon and Andy Bogart write
Zero-day_vulnerability
Malware, this malware is similar to the NewposThings, FrameworkPOS and BernhardPOS malware which were known previously as notorious malware. Multigrain
Multigrain_(malware)
October 2026 in information security
software and remote-access functionality. Researchers reported that the malware targeted browser credentials, cloud service secrets, developer authentication
Black October (information security)
Black_October_(information_security)
Free general-purpose operating system
association founded by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. It is the second-oldest Linux distribution still being developed (only Slackware is older) and forms the
Debian
Type of denial-of-service software attack
from 1969 on a Burroughs 5500 at the University of Washington. Since 2011, Linux has a default nproc limit that can be listed with ulimit -u to mitigate
Fork_bomb
BIOS-based computer malware
occurrences of this malware. Ruiu says that the malware is able to infect the BIOS of computers running Windows, Mac OS X, BSD and Linux as well as spread
BadBIOS
Software
(computing) Linux malware rkhunter Lynis OSSEC Samhain (software) Emms, Steve (2023-11-05). "chkrootkit - locally checks for signs of a rootkit". LinuxLinks
Chkrootkit
Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider
redirected Linux users to malware for years". BleepingComputer. Retrieved May 31, 2026. "Fake ChatGPT, Claude PyPI packages spread JarkaStealer malware". ScMedia
Kaspersky_Lab
Antivirus software suite
Dr.Web is a software suite developed by Russian anti-malware company Doctor Web. First released in 1992, it became the first anti-virus service in Russia
Dr.Web
Topics referred to by the same term
Brundle may refer to: Brundle (surname) Brundle (malware), an ELF-infector virus; see Linux malware Orangeville/Brundle Field Aerodrome (TC id: COB4)
Brundle_(disambiguation)
Open-source media player software and server
distinction as the first player to support playback of encrypted DVDs on Linux and macOS by using the libdvdcss DVD decryption library; however, this library
VLC_media_player
Technical specification for firmware architecture
64-bit to 32-bit - kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree". Linux kernel mailing list. "Linux kernel 3.15, Section 1.3. EFI 64-bit kernels
UEFI
Linux software for speech recognition
early 2000s, several speech recognition (SR) software packages exist for Linux. Some of them are free and open-source software and others are proprietary
Speech recognition software for Linux
Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux
Topics referred to by the same term
Leptomeningeal disease Life Model Decoy, a fictional android in Marvel Comics Linux Malware Detect Lithuanian Mathematical Society (Lithuanian: Lietuvos matematikų
LMD
Network level ad- and tracker-blocking app
Pi-hole is a Linux network-level advertisement and Internet tracker blocking application which acts as a DNS sinkhole and optionally a DHCP server, intended
Pi-hole
Penetration testing distribution based on Arch Linux
BlackArch is a penetration testing distribution based on Arch Linux that provides a large number of security tools. It is an open-source distro created
BlackArch
viruses and worms Malware analysis XML denial-of-service attack Distributed denial-of-service attacks on root nameservers Linux malware Zero-day (computing)
List of cybersecurity information technologies
List_of_cybersecurity_information_technologies
Malware program
or XAgent is a spyware and malware program designed to collect and transmit hacked files from machines running Windows, Linux, iOS, or Android, to servers
X-Agent
Cyberattack via an industry's supply chain
tamper with the manufacturing or distribution of a product by installing malware or hardware-based spying components. Symantec's 2019 Internet Security
Supply_chain_attack
Freeware file synchronization program
is a program used for file synchronization. It is available on Windows, Linux and macOS. The project is backed by donations. Donors get access to a Donation
FreeFileSync
Web browser developed by Google
open-source (FOSS) components from Apple WebKit and Mozilla Firefox. Versions for Linux, macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and Android were later released, and Chrome became
Google_Chrome
Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread
A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code into those
Computer_virus
Usage of Linux as operating system of choice
Reasons to change from other operating systems to Linux include better system stability, better malware protection, low or no cost, that most distributions
Linux_adoption
Malware for performing distributed denial of service attacks
Stacheldraht (German for "barbed wire") is malware which performs a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. It was written by "Thomas Stacheldraht"
Stacheldraht
CIA files on cyber war and surveillance
operating systems including Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. A CIA internal audit identified 91 malware tools out of more than 500 tools in use in 2016 being
Vault_7
Piece of software or hardware that creates and runs virtual machines
operating systems may share the virtualized hardware resources: for example, Linux, Windows, and macOS instances can all run on a single physical x86 machine
Hypervisor
Malware targeting network routers and storage devices
VPNFilter is malware designed to infect routers and certain network attached storage devices. It is estimated to have infected approximately 500,000 routers
VPNFilter
Software security mechanism
are two such implementations for Linux. Security researchers rely heavily on sandboxing technologies to analyse malware behavior. By creating an environment
Sandbox_(computer_security)
Security risk and prevention for mobile devices
weakness. Some malware makes use of the common user's limited knowledge. Only 2.1% of users reported having first-hand contact with mobile malware, according
Mobile_security
Windows compatibility software
running it as the superuser. Malware research software such as ZeroWine runs Wine on Linux in a virtual machine, to keep the malware completely isolated from
Wine_(software)
Software for handling software deployment
well as Slackware Linux, there is CheckInstall, and for recipe-based systems such as Gentoo Linux and hybrid systems such as Arch Linux, it is possible
Package_manager
Freeware memory scanner and debugger
to include potentially unwanted programs which are often bloatware or malware, and as a result, most anti-virus software detects the installer as a virus
Cheat_Engine
Web browser developed by Opera
the browser is based on Chromium. Opera is available on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS (Safari WebKit engine). Opera offers two mobile versions
Opera_(web_browser)
Open-source web browser project
resulting browser executable with the Chromium name and logo. Thus many Linux distributions do this, as well as FreeBSD and OpenBSD.[citation needed]
Chromium_(web_browser)
Special user account used for system administration
the superuser account. In Unix-like computer operating systems (such as Linux), root is the conventional name of the user who has all rights or permissions
Superuser
Automation-focused scripting language for Windows
rather than the actual malware.[citation needed] Free and open-source software portal AutoIt (for Windows) AutoKey (for Linux) Automator (for Macintosh)
AutoHotkey
2008 computer worm
Win32.DNSChanger Facebook malware Malware analysis Lucian Constantin (28 October 2010). "New Koobface Variant Infects Linux Systems". softpedia. Retrieved
Koobface
Linux-based operating system developed by Google
open-source ChromiumOS operating system (which itself is derived from Gentoo Linux), and uses the Google Chrome web browser as its principal user interface
ChromeOS
Open-source device management software
Access Malware as Microsoft Edge service". Cyber Security News. Retrieved 2025-08-05. "Ukrainian Government Agencies Hit By Stealthy MeshAgent Malware Campaign"
MeshCentral
Extensible security audit tool for computer systems
Lynis is an extensible security audit tool for computer systems running Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, OpenBSD, Solaris, and other Unix derivatives. It assists
Lynis
Computer software bug occurring in 2038
instance VPNs) and sites that use them. The MS Filtering Engine Update anti-malware functions of Microsoft Exchange Server installations broke on 1 January
Year_2038_problem
Remote access trojan
Havex malware, also known as Backdoor.Oldrea, is a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) employed by the Russian attributed APT group "Energetic Bear" or "Dragonfly"
Havex
Storage location for software packages
designed to include useful packages, major repositories are designed to be malware free. If a computer is configured to use a digitally signed repository
Software_repository
Free DNS service maintained by Cloudflare in partnership with APNIC
offers 1.1.1.1 client applications for Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux; the apps primarily act as a VPN-like service (Cloudflare WARP) that routes
1.1.1.1
Espionage malware discovered in 2014
as The Washington Post and The Independent. The malware is said to have multiple backdoors to Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows. Evidence of a possible fourth
Careto_(malware)
Free and open source FTP software
FileZilla Client and FileZilla Server. Clients are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. Both server and client support FTP and FTPS (FTP over SSL/TLS)
FileZilla
Topics referred to by the same term
song by Josh Dies off the EP Talons Brundle Fly (malware), a Linux ELF-infector virus; see Linux malware Search for "brundlefly" or "brundle-fly" on Wikipedia
Brundlefly
Archive file format
ACE for DOS; and a freeware command-line interface decompression tool for Linux (i386) and macOS called "Unace". e-merge GmbH also provides several libraries
ACE_(compressed_file_format)
Open-source server virtualization platform
Virtual Machine (KVM) for hardware-assisted virtual machines with LXC for Linux system containers in a single management environment. Management is available
Proxmox_Virtual_Environment
Virtual private network provider
Netherlands. The service has applications for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, Android TV, and tvOS. NordVPN was established in 2012 by
NordVPN
Low-level computer software
router distribution based on the Linux-libre kernel IPFire – an open-source firewall/router distribution based on the Linux kernel fli4l – an open-source
Firmware
Internet security suite developed by Kaspersky Lab
Windows and Mac OS X. Kaspersky Internet Security offers protection from malware, as well as email spam, phishing and hacking attempts, and data leaks.
Kaspersky_Internet_Security
Office suite software by Kingsoft
known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, Fire OS and HarmonyOS developed by the Chinese software company
WPS_Office
Indian Debian-based Linux distribution
| BOSS Linux". "Downloads – BOSS GNU/Linux". BOSS GNU/Linux. Retrieved 26 September 2024. Panwar, Ayush. "Investigation Report: APT36 Malware Campaign
Bharat Operating System Solutions
Bharat_Operating_System_Solutions
Anti-malware software
analysis in Linux systems is available. Windows Defender Offline (formerly known as Standalone System Sweeper) is a stand-alone anti-malware program that
Microsoft_Defender_Antivirus
Software licensed to be freely used, modified and distributed
Linux distributions. The Free Software Directory maintains a large database of free-software packages. Some of the best-known examples include Linux-libre
Free_software
Transmission Control Protocol technology
routing causes cross-path data fragmentation that results in firewalls and malware scanners becoming inefficient when they only see one path's traffic. In
Multipath_TCP
Proprietary file system developed by Microsoft
NTFS read/write support is available on Linux and BSD using NTFS3 in the Linux kernel or using NTFS-3G in both Linux and BSD. NTFS uses several files hidden
NTFS
Free and open-source software package management system for macOS and Linux
installation of software on Apple's operating system, macOS, as well as Linux. The name is intended to suggest the idea of building software on the Mac
Homebrew_(package_manager)
Field of computer security
cybersecurity threats, including zero-day vulnerabilities and polymorphic malware. In recent years, SIEM has become increasingly incorporated into national
Security information and event management
Security_information_and_event_management
Web browser made by Mozilla
anticipated web standards. The software is available for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, as well as a mobile version for Android (see Firefox for Android)
Firefox
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Indian, Sanskrit
Bright
Biblical
net
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Christian, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Latin, Swedish
Flaxen Colored; Fair Haired; Blond; Flaxen Hair
Boy/Male
Tamil
A cry of grief
Male
English
Latin form of Greek Linos, LINUS means either "a cry of grief"Â or "flax, linen." In the bible, this is the name of one of Paul's Christian associates. In mythology, this is the name of a musician, the personification of lamentation. He was killed by Apollo who was his rival in music. Another version of the story says he was killed by Hercules.Â
Male
Italian
Italian and Spanish form of Latin Linus, LINO means either "a cry of grief"Â or "flax, linen."
Male
Italian
Italian and Spanish form of Roman Latin Cælinus, CELINO means "heaven."
Female
French
French feminine form of Roman Cælinus, CÉLINE means "heaven."
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
A Cry of Grief
Boy/Male
Biblical American Greek Latin
Net.
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