ZeroCool to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agoChinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoorarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1236arrow-down115 cross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldcybersecurity@lemmy.capebreton.socialtechnology@feddit.chlinux@lemmy.worldlinux@lemmy.ml
arrow-up1221arrow-down1external-linkChinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoorarstechnica.comZeroCool to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square15fedilink cross-posted to: sysadmin@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.worldcybersecurity@lemmy.capebreton.socialtechnology@feddit.chlinux@lemmy.worldlinux@lemmy.ml
minus-squaredanielfgomlinkfedilinkEnglish44•10 months agoOn the upside they are helping secure Linux because now the the appropriate action can be taken to prevent this in future. I’m sure a security patch has already been released. The Linux community normally addresses these things very quickly.
minus-square@Lmaydev@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish17•10 months agoI’m all for looking on the bright side but this is a bit much lol Linux users online tend to get very high and mighty every time another OS has a sucurity bug. But it’s a good thing for Linux hehe
minus-squareShadowlinkfedilinkEnglish12•10 months agoThere’s no actual vuln here is there? It’s just a persistent backdoor that hides with some elf and kernel tricks.
On the upside they are helping secure Linux because now the the appropriate action can be taken to prevent this in future.
I’m sure a security patch has already been released. The Linux community normally addresses these things very quickly.
I’m all for looking on the bright side but this is a bit much lol
Linux users online tend to get very high and mighty every time another OS has a sucurity bug. But it’s a good thing for Linux hehe
There’s no actual vuln here is there? It’s just a persistent backdoor that hides with some elf and kernel tricks.