[sunjester]

SysAdmins, who probably already have much on their plates at the end of the holiday season, have another rather urgent task at hand if they administer servers equipped with Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) cards. It seems that since November, black hat hackers have been using the cards to gain access in order to install JungleSec ransomware that encrypts data and demands a 0.3 bitcoin payment (about $1,100 at the current rate) for the unlock key.

https://www.itprotoday.com/linux/linux-s...re-attacks

[mothered]

And who said Linux Is not susceptible to such attacks and the like?

Every entity Is open to exploitation.