Long are the days of Microsoft bashing Linux. Last year, Microsoft introduced the integration of the bash shell in Windows 10, which is an environment within a Windows 10 subsystem, where to run Ubuntu Linux, as well as other distributions, natively.

Enter the era of cross-platform malware: once a menace almost exclusive to Windows users, malware is now gone full-on mainstream, with widespread attacks across all operating systems, including Mac OS X, and Linux.