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3 weeks ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

Darktrace has discovered a new Go-based botnet, named PumaBot, that is targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices and avoiding scanning by using a C2 server to acquire targets and then use brute-force attacks to grab SSH credentials. PumaBot retrieves a list of targets from a command-and-control server and then establishes persistence, using system service files.

4 weeks ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

KaOS Linux 2025.05 is now available. This independent distribution (meaning that it's not based on another distribution) features KDE's Plasma desktop and Arch Linux's pacman package manager. In the official release statement, the team announces that KaOS 2025.05 is officially Qt5 free. Qt5 saw its end of life years ago, but the move to Qt6 has been slow-going.

1 month ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. Read that again, and again. Announced at the Build 2025 developer conference, this marks the closing of a request that was submitted nearly nine years ago. One thing to remember is that this is not the Microsoft of old, so releasing something as open source shouldn't be that big of a deal, but WSL is a bit different because it directly involves Linux. The code for WSL is now available on GitHub (downloaded as either a .zip or .tar.gz file).

1 month ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 6.15 on May 25, 2025. This latest release includes some pretty important Rust integration, by way of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver, named NOVA. Written in Rust, NOVA gives the kernel significant gains on exFAT performance and a new fanotify API for enabling real-time monitoring of filesystem mount and unmount events (to make it possible for applications to instantly respond to changes).

1 month ago | linux-magazine.com | Jack Wallen

Over on Phoronix, Michael Larabel reported that Red Hat did the unthinkable and made the general availability (GA) release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 10.0 available. Version 10 of the enterprise Linux distribution wasn't supposed to hit until the Red Hat Summit, which happens May 19-22 in Boston.