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.
That’s dumb. All computer systems are vulnerable to being compromised, which is why you should always be vigilant. There is no magic button because all of these machines and software were developed by fallible people.
Only a few months a serious supply chain attack occurred in the most commonly used linux data compression library. It was caught by a random database developer - not even a security expert, who noticed SSH logins were a little bit slower than they should be.
Fortunately, that one was in the very early stages and was not yet widespread.
Linux by nature is more secure than windows, being open source, but it is not absolutely secure.