anuseems Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 (edited) Security researchers at ESET, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, the Swedish National Infrastructure for Computing as well as other agencies, have uncovered a widespread cybercriminal campaign that has seized control of over 25,000 Unix servers worldwide. The attack, which has been dubbed Operation Windigo by security experts, has resulted in infected servers sending out millions of spam emails. Its complex knot of sophisticated malware components are designed to hijack servers, infect the computers that visit them, and steal information. Victims of Operation Windigo have included cPanel and kernel.org.http://blog.eset.ie/2014/03/18/operation-windigo-malware-used-to-attack-over-500000-computers-daily-after-25000-unix-servers-hijacked-by-backdoor-trojan/ Edited March 21, 2014 by anuseems Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oliverjia Posted March 21, 2014 Share Posted March 21, 2014 So is the security flaw also present on desktop versions of Linux? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snipes Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 No it's just the human error again.http://www.anonymz.com/?http://www.zdnet.com/linux-and-botnets-its-not-linuxs-fault-7000027538/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catoja Posted March 22, 2014 Share Posted March 22, 2014 Malware do exists to Linux... But you have to RUN it. Sudo SU it and that's just stupid ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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