Never-before-seen malware has infected hundreds of Linux and Windows devices
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I'll dissect this a little... I am not doing anything better.
If only people took the basic steps to prevent this.
See? We can have cross-platform software! Also, earlier in the article they mention FreeBSD. BSD !== Linux. Mac's are in the BSD family.
Another idea... Recently, a company that rented out hacked computers to use as proxies went down. This upset a bunch of malcontents. From the looks of when it grew, that'd coincide nicely with the time frame.
Heh... No honor among thieves. Or, maybe that's their way of advertising! (They don't do this for fun anymore, it's all about the money.)
Those are things everyone should be trying to do. They're mostly not even difficult. My Linux-Tips site has 2FA enabled for those who wish to use it - and anyone higher than a subscriber is forced to use it. I'm just one guy.
Now this is new to me. See? I learned something. In hindsight, that should be something I'd have guessed. It's SoC and it should reset during boot. I did not think of that.
They then go on to suggest using a key for SSH which, again, is something everyone should be doing. Even I do this stuff and I'm just a dabbler.
Finally, it looks like your desktop computer isn't the target. Desktop users probably don't have all that much to worry about. That doesn't mean you're immune, it just means you're not the intended target.
If only people took the basic steps to prevent this.
See? We can have cross-platform software! Also, earlier in the article they mention FreeBSD. BSD !== Linux. Mac's are in the BSD family.
Another idea... Recently, a company that rented out hacked computers to use as proxies went down. This upset a bunch of malcontents. From the looks of when it grew, that'd coincide nicely with the time frame.
Heh... No honor among thieves. Or, maybe that's their way of advertising! (They don't do this for fun anymore, it's all about the money.)
Those are things everyone should be trying to do. They're mostly not even difficult. My Linux-Tips site has 2FA enabled for those who wish to use it - and anyone higher than a subscriber is forced to use it. I'm just one guy.
Now this is new to me. See? I learned something. In hindsight, that should be something I'd have guessed. It's SoC and it should reset during boot. I did not think of that.
They then go on to suggest using a key for SSH which, again, is something everyone should be doing. Even I do this stuff and I'm just a dabbler.
Finally, it looks like your desktop computer isn't the target. Desktop users probably don't have all that much to worry about. That doesn't mean you're immune, it just means you're not the intended target.
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I wonder if IT departments use Qubes on a regular basis?
Moving this to LInux Security.
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donnerkebab1730
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does this affect hardened bsd? wonder if the fact that it is specifically developed to be secure means anything in this case
donnerkebab1730
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heres another good article:
blog.lumen.com
Chaos is a Go-based Swiss army knife of malware - Lumen
Black Lotus Labs, the threat intelligence arm of Lumen Technologies, recently uncovered a multifunctional Go-based malware developed for Windows and Linux
blog.lumen.com
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I was thinking back to this video: https://invidious.tiekoetter.com/watch?v=49eBJAKyrls DistroTube does mention SSHing into your machine, but the article highly suggests always using a cryptographic key when doing that
