If you're looking to automate tasks in Linux, cron is the tool to use. Find out how it's done here.

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.

A cryptomining dropper malware has been spotted by security researchers while gaining persistence on Linux hosts by adding cron jobs to reinfect the compromised machines after being removed. The ...

These jobs are stored in a crontab file, which contains the action to be taken and specifies when it should be executed. I will be using Ubuntu 18.04 for this article, which has cron installed by ...

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IT security researchers have discovered an unusual type of attack: the perpetrators have set up an emulated Linux environment as a backdoor.

You can do this using an SSH key distributed via Puppet and an IdentityFile entry in /root/.ssh/config. If you apply changes now, you should see that there is an entry in root's crontab, and every ten ...