{"id":245172,"date":"2026-05-13T10:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T14:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/20000-linux-users-grabbed-a-malicious-cemu-build-and-it-steals-passwords-for-coding-and-cloud-credentials\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:15:08","slug":"20000-linux-users-grabbed-a-malicious-cemu-build-and-it-steals-passwords-for-coding-and-cloud-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/13\/20000-linux-users-grabbed-a-malicious-cemu-build-and-it-steals-passwords-for-coding-and-cloud-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"20,000 Linux users grabbed a malicious Cemu build, and it steals passwords for coding and cloud credentials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/20000-linux-users-grabbed-a-malicious-cemu-build-and-it-steals-passwords-for-coding-and-cloud-credentials\/\">20,000 Linux users grabbed a malicious Cemu build, and it steals passwords for coding and cloud credentials<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/20000-linux-users-grabbed-a-malicious-cemu-build-and-it-steals-passwords-for-coding-and-cloud-credentials\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/20000-linux-users-grabbed-a-malicious-cemu-build-and-it-steals-passwords-for-coding-and-cloud-credentials\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-13 10:54:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        Cemu Linux builds on GitHub were compromised May 6\u201312, 2026; nearly 20,000 downloads likely infected.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        If infected, a clean OS install is advised; otherwise, delete binaries and reset passwords, tokens, and SSH keys.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        People downloading Cemu via Flatpak were unaffected by the attack.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Linux isn&#8217;t as virus-free as it used to be. Once heralded as pretty useless, Linux antivirus software is more valuable now than it has ever been, with people discovering exploits and attacks in the open-source software world more often than we&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the case with the Cemu emulator, which recently suffered a malicious attack that caused almost 20,000 Linux users to download an infected file. And while the issue has since been remedied, people who downloaded a potentially infected file should take steps to protect themselves now.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThese 7 Linux myths you still believe simply aren&#8217;t true<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Linux is a completely different beast than it was a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>                   &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/20000-linux-users-grabbed-a-malicious-cemu-build-and-it-steals-passwords-for-coding-and-cloud-credentials\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>20,000 Linux users grabbed a malicious Cemu build, and it steals passwords for coding and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245174,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/05\/rog-ally-x-emudeck.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-245172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245176,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245172\/revisions\/245176"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}