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Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021 (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 month ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] cron@feddit.org 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Yes, but they replace common tools like top or lsof with manipulated versions. This might at least trick less experienced sysadmins.

Edit: Some found out about the vulnerability by ressource alerts. Probably very easy in a virtualized environment. The malware can't fool the hypervisor ;)

[–] li10@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago

Not quite the monitoring I’m talking about though.

Basically, it seems like this would be a nightmare for a home user to detect, but a company is probably gonna pick up on this quite quickly with snmp monitoring (unless it somehow does something to that).