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Trend Micro Points Out a Giant Cloud Linux Security Problem

3 years ago thenewstack.io

Summary: This is a summary of an article originally published by The New Stack. Read the full original article here →

Don’t get too excited by that headline. That’s way the heck up there, but this is even more fundamental than that.

CentOS 7 was first released in June 2014, and it dropped out of full support in August 2019. If you’re still running CentOS 7 in production, your cloud images deserve everything that happens to them, and you deserve a visit to the unemployment office.

And, in many cases, it’s when you’re going to realize that you’ve already been compromised for months, possibly years.