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Botnet discovered on Linux servers

Publication:Heise OnlineDate:Sep 14 2009

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It is not clear how the servers were compromised. Sinegubko speculates that some admins may have been sloppy enough to use the root account for (S)FTP operations and to store their root passwords in FTP program settings. The hijackers may have accessed these and sniffed out the root passwords to penetrate these systems.


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