Chinese APTs have been targeting Linux servers for almost a decade

Five related Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) groups operating in the interest of the Chinese government have systematically targeted Linux servers, Windows systems and mobile devices running Android while remaining undetected for nearly a decade. A new report from BlackBerry looks at how these threats have been part of pervasive economic espionage operations targeting intellectual property. Linux runs nearly all of the top million websites online, 75 percent of all web servers, 98 percent of the world's supercomputers and 75 percent of major cloud service providers. Most large organizations rely on Linux to run websites, proxy network traffic and store valuable… [Continue Reading]