{"id":209409,"date":"2026-05-06T03:20:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T03:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T07:20:08","slug":"new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers\/\">New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers\/\">https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-05 18:01:39<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bleepingcomputer.com\">www.bleepingcomputer.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The previously undocumented Quasar Linux (QLNX) implant targets developers\u2019 systems to execute advanced rootkit, backdoor, and credential-stealing tasks. Deployed through various development and DevOps platforms like npm, PyPI, GitHub, and AWS, this stealthy malware allows for possible supply-chain attacks. Researchers from Trend Micro noted that it dynamically compiles rootkits and PAM backdoors to maintain stealth and long-term persistence within systems. QLNX uses sophisticated persistence mechanisms, including the LD_PRELOAD method, systemd, and XDG autostart, among others. It features a comprehensive array of tools within multiple components, such as a central remote access tool (RAT), a stealthy rootkit dual-layer setup, surveillance modules &#8211; The generated text has been blocked by our content filters.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New stealthy Quasar Linux malware targets software developers https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/new-stealthy-quasar-linux-malware-targets-software-developers\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-05 18:01:39 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209410,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bleepstatic.com\/content\/hl-images\/2025\/06\/18\/Linux_tux.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-209409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-malware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209411,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209409\/revisions\/209411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}