Hackers targeting outdated versions of Linux in the cloud
New researchLinux Threat Report 2021 1H from Trend Micro found Linux operating systems are being targeted – with nearly 13 million detections from the first half of 2021 – as organizations increase their digital footprint in the cloud and the pervasive threats that make up the Linux threat landscape.
As of 2017, 90% of public clouds workloads ran on Linux. According to GartnerÒ, “Rising interest in cloud-native architectures is prompting questions about the future need for server virtualization in the data center. The most common driver is Linux-OS-based virtualization, which is the basis for containers.”