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In VirtualBox, you can send keyboard shortcuts like CTRL+ALT+DEL to logout, and a bunch of other keyboard shortcuts to the guest (the virtual machine), without affecting the host (your computer).
- Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts.
- The World Bank open sourcing a tool.
- Swiss privacy debacle.
- Obsidian plugins suggestion.
- And other Linux news, tips, and, of course, memes!
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Table of Contents
- 1 🌟 OtterCookie: New Malware from North Korea Targets Tech and Finance Professionals
- 2 📰 Linux and Open Source News
- 3 🧠 What We’re Thinking About
- 4 🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
- 5 👷 Homelab and Maker’s Corner
- 6 ✨ Project Highlight
- 7 📽️ Videos I am Creating for You
- 8 🧩 Quiz Time
- 9 💡 Quick Handy Tip
- 10 🤣 Meme of the Week
- 11 🗓️ Tech Trivia
- 12 🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
- 13 ❤️ With love
🌟 OtterCookie: New Malware from North Korea Targets Tech and Finance Professionals
Lazarus Group is currently distributing a stealer malware in fake job offer attacks. Here’s how it goes:
- Lure via LinkedIn: Attackers offer freelance work to fix a minor DApp bug.
- Triggered Failure: An intentional app error fetches and executes malicious code from external API
- Malware Execution: OtterCookie infects the system, stealing victims’ browser data and crypto wallets.
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📰 Linux and Open Source News
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🧠 What We’re Thinking About
💬 Let’s see what else you get in this edition
🧮 Linux Tips, Tutorials and More
Input ⇾ Keyboard → Soft Keyboard menu to open a virtual keyboard for the guest VM.Before Spotify or iTunes, there was Napster. Launched on June 1, 1999, by 18-year-old Shawn Fanning, who built it in his college dorm room, Napster quickly attracted over 20 million users (and viruses).
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👷 Homelab and Maker’s Corner
Desktop Linux is mostly neglected by the industry but loved by the community. For the past 12 years, It’s FOSS has been helping people use Linux on their personal computers. And we are now facing the existential threat from AI models stealing our content.
✨ Project Highlight
Switzerland is going down a very dystopian path. I hope the law doesn’t pass.
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📽️ Videos I am Creating for You
Essential Ubuntu keyboard shortcuts in action in this week’s video.
🧩 Quiz Time
Helwan Linux is a distro out of Egypt that feels quite nice.
💡 Quick Handy Tip
Read detailed analysis on ANY.RUN’s blog.
This time, we have a puzzle for deciphering scrambled application names.
There is some interesting news from this month’s desktop Linux market share update.
🤣 Meme of the Week
Linux has reached an all-time high market share of 2.69% in the latest Steam Survey. Also, CachyOS has found itself a spot in Linux-specific desktop market share in Steam Survey.
🗓️ Tech Trivia
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🧑🤝🧑 FOSSverse Corner
Looks like a cyberdeck. Works like a classroom. The CrowPi 3 surprised me with its versatility.
❤️ With love
One of our regular FOSSers, Laura, is looking to compare notes on building Linux and open source software from source.Linux users, together, strong! 🤜🤛To send CTRL+ALT+DEL, use Host+Delete. The Host key is usually the Right CTRL key on a keyboard. In the top menu, go to Input ⇾ Keyboard → Keyboard Settings to view and customize additional keyboard shortcuts for interacting with the virtual machine.Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system with Quarkdown.Enjoy FOSS 😄
