Tag: Aquasec

On October 3, 2024, Aquasec published a report about newly discovered malware named “perfctl”, targeting Linux servers. In it they cite the malware taking advantage of misconfigurations, as well as attempting to “exploit the Polkit vulnerability (CVE-2021-4043) to escalate privileges.”  Only problem is that CVE-2021-4043 isn’t “the Polkit vulnerability”, which in itself is problematic since…