Security researchers have discovered a new remote access trojan (RAT) for Linux that keeps an almost invisible profile by hiding in tasks scheduled for execution on a non-existent day, February 31st.

Cron persistence is a common Linux malware technique. Learn how it works, how to detect it, and how to remove malicious cron ...

Task schedulers are important and complicated. The Cron utility for Unix-like systems is one of the oldest, most mature, and best out there – but it can be very system specific which doesn’t lend ...