Ars Technica

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility targets encrypted SSH connections

Researchers have found a malicious backdoor in a compression tool that made its way into widely used Linux distributions, including those from Red Hat and Debian. Because the backdoor was discovered ...
Ars Technica

Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach

Infrastructure used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel was infected for two years, starting in 2009, by sophisticated malware that managed to get a hold of one of the ...
Purdue University

Creating keys for use with SSH in MacOS and in Linux

The command will move through a series of prompts. First, it will ask where you want to save the keys. Unless you are an expert, accept the default. This will create an “id_rsa” and an “id_rsa.pub” ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers infect Linux SSH servers with Tsunami botnet malware

An unknown threat actor is brute-forcing Linux SSH servers to install a wide range of malware, including the Tsunami DDoS (distributed denial of service) bot, ShellBot, log cleaners, privilege ...
ZDNet

The best SSH clients for Linux (and why you need them)

Secure Shell (SSH) is a tool I use daily. On my local area network (LAN), I have several Linux desktops and servers I need to access at any given moment, some of which do not have graphical user ...