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Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits (arstechnica.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Also keep in mind that the main reason Windows is targeted for so many exploits is because of the consumer market share. If Linux consumer market share goes up, so will general malware targeting it. We already saw it happen when OSX share increased and Apple had to abandon the whole "Macs don't get viruses" schtick.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (4 children)

We already saw it happen when OSX share increased and Apple had to abandon the whole "Macs don't get viruses" schtick.

It's kinda crazy that Apple got away with spinning "Our products don't sell well enough for this to be a problem" into a marketing point for as long as they did.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Apple always does that. After iAds failed, they pivoted into advertising a privacy focused ad campaign to counter Google. Had iAds succeeded, they'd be perfectly fine into getting into that business.