Windows Defender now works in Linux, because why not
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What the FOSS: Over the past few years, Microsoft has turned its "humble" Defender anti-malware tool into a comprehensive security solution for both Windows machines and cloud environments. Now, the Redmond corporation is expanding Defender support to Linux desktops and servers as well.
Microsoft believes Linux systems also need a corporate-oriented security solution such as Defender. Redmond's anti-malware solution, notorious for its arguably excessive false positives, is now offering expanded support for major Linux distributions. This allows organizations to use the same security platform to protect heterogeneous enterprise environments where Windows and Linux machines coexist.
Redmond introducedMicrosoft Defender for Linux by highlighting the growing appeal of Linux systems to cybercriminals. Software developers who use Linux as their primary platform must contend with multiple components of the software stack, including remote code...
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