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If you think you know what's running on your Linux host, you're probably wrong. Not because you're bad at your job--but because the kernel is lying to you.

GitHub has become the latest delivery mechanism for malware aimed at security researchers.

Over the span of just 14 days, threat actors unleashed more than 81 million login attempts against Microsoft's Azure command-line interface (CLI). The campaign, which security researchers at Huntress identified as an ongoing, automated password ...

Building effective behavioral detections starts with understanding how processes behave at runtime, rather than simply collecting more logs. eBPF gives Linux security teams the visibility needed to correlate those behaviors into meaningful detections ...

If you're relying on standard network logs to protect your Linux infrastructure, you're flying blind. Most organizations believe they have network security monitoring because they're capturing traffic, but they're actually just collecting noise. Real ...

Offensive Security just dropped Kali Linux 2026.2, and at first glance, it looks like a standard quarterly refresh. You've got the usual kernel bumps, desktop environment updates, and a handful of new utilities. But don't write this off as just ...

The Linux Foundation has officially launched Akrites, a coordinated industry initiative designed to improve how critical open source vulnerabilities are validated, coordinated, and disclosed before patches reach downstream users. Backed by a diverse ...

When a security alert fires, the panic often sets in before the analysis. Many administrators instinctively reach for /var/log/auth.log or journalctl, but those logs tell only a partial story. They document successful logins and authentication ...

A process with a stable workload shouldn't keep growing its resident memory. When it does, the first question isn't how much RAM is available. It's where the allocations stopped being released. On Linux, that answer isn't always obvious because the . ...

AI is beginning to reshape how penetration testing workflows are organized. For years, the penetration tester's workflow has been a labor-intensive ritual: scan, enumerate, research, exploit, and report. But new frameworks like Dark Moon are ...