diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index dbcab9c19..3f91dbeac 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -3226,17 +3226,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "serde_repr"
-version = "0.1.19"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6c64451ba24fc7a6a2d60fc75dd9c83c90903b19028d4eff35e88fc1e86564e9"
-dependencies = [
- "proc-macro2",
- "quote",
- "syn 2.0.77",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_spanned"
 version = "0.6.7"
@@ -3585,16 +3574,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "syn 2.0.77",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "syscalls"
-version = "0.6.18"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "43d0e35dc7d73976a53c7e6d7d177ef804a0c0ee774ec77bcc520c2216fd7cbe"
-dependencies = [
- "serde",
- "serde_repr",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tap"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -4656,7 +4635,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "sha1",
  "sha2 0.10.8",
  "smallvec",
- "syscalls",
  "thiserror",
  "tlsh-fixed",
  "uuid",
diff --git a/lib/Cargo.toml b/lib/Cargo.toml
index e6c43d6c2..8651de8c7 100644
--- a/lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -246,10 +246,6 @@ yara-x-parser = { workspace = true, features = ["serde"] }
 
 lingua = { version = "1.6.2", optional = true, default-features = false, features = ["english", "german", "french", "spanish"] }
 
-# syscalls crate is only available for Linux
-[target.'cfg(target_os = "linux")'.dependencies]
-syscalls = "0.6.18"
-
 [build-dependencies]
 anyhow = { workspace = true }
 globwalk = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/lib/src/scanner/mod.rs b/lib/src/scanner/mod.rs
index cca7fd90e..8e6dad186 100644
--- a/lib/src/scanner/mod.rs
+++ b/lib/src/scanner/mod.rs
@@ -591,15 +591,6 @@ impl<'r> Scanner<'r> {
         if self.timeout.is_some() {
             INIT_HEARTBEAT.call_once(|| {
                 thread::spawn(|| loop {
-                    #[cfg(target_os = "linux")]
-                    unsafe {
-                        // unshare(CLONE_FS) preventing setns syscall to fail
-                        // if a timeout is set for the scanner.
-                        // see issue: https://github.com/VirusTotal/yara-x/issues/182
-                        syscalls::syscall!(syscalls::Sysno::unshare, 512)
-                            .unwrap();
-                    }
-
                     thread::sleep(Duration::from_secs(1));
                     ENGINE.increment_epoch();
                     HEARTBEAT_COUNTER