OMIGOD! Microsoft Secretly Installed an Open Source Agent with Critical Vulnerabilities on Thousands of Linux VMs

Microsoft secret agent

In a rather appalling discovery, Microsoft has now released patches for critical vulnerabilities in its Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) software agent which had been silently installed on Azure Linux VMs.

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