Crowdstrike's malware-as-a-service is now affecting Linux. Red Hat, Rocky and Debian stable are affected. According to distrowatch.com, most of us here running linux as a desktop are using debian and debian stable based distros like Mint, Ubuntu, MX. Stop updating, 2 wks+
(www.theregister.com)
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Someone who bills himself as a 'computer guru' and who reconditions laptops and sells them, recently told me that Linux was the way to go, as it was (in his words) impervious to hacking and malware. Hmmm... maybe he's full of it too.
Nothing is immune to hacking. Hackers just don't want to spend resources for a small user base, which is why they usually target windows... there must be a reason they're targeting linux distros now...
Yeah - Linux is on a LARGE majority of IOT and networking gear. It is not a small install base by any means. I guarantee you have something in your house that runs Linux and probably don't even know it. TV? DVR? Phone? Any cameras?