Linux on Windows Exposes a New Attack Surface ….
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The Linux in Windows 10 isn’t running inside of a hypervisor; it’s “running on the raw hardware, getting all the benefits of performance and system access, as well as expanding the potential attack surface.” eWeek reports on a new threat discovered by Alex Ionescu, the chief architect at cybersecurity company Crowdstrike, which begins with the fact that “The Windows file system is also mapped to Linux, such that Linux will get access to the same files and directories.”
http://www.eweek.com/security/risk-from … k-hat.html