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Security firm Check Point has discovered malware that uses a remote exploit to gain a presence on Linux servers and implant a backdoor trojan, and has dubbed it SpeakUp. The malware can also infect Mac devices.

The Debian GNU/Linux Project has issued the seventh update for its stable distribution aka Stretch, to fix a number of issues, including one major remotely exploitable vulnerability in the package manager.

Security firm Palo Alto Networks claims to have found samples of malware spread by a group known as Rocke that uninstalls five different cloud security protection and monitoring products from Linux servers that have already been compromised due to their running certain applications with known vulnerabilities.