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Thanks for playing: New Linux ransomware decrypted, pwns itself

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Re: On Linux?

"I thought that was secure?"

As you hinted at, it's not news that over recent years there have been far more holes in commercial Linux distributions that on average take longer to get patched (more days at risk) than current Windows versions. Whilst Windows is a worse world for malware on the desktop where user interaction is involved, If you look at hacks of internet facing servers where user interaction is not involved, you are statistically roughly 4 times more likely to get successfully hacked running Linux than Windows Server...So standby for likely lots more of these server side attacks on Linux with every new zero day vulnerability!

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