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Mayhem — A New Malware Targets Linux and FreeBSD Web Servers

Security researchers from Russian Internet giant Yandex have discovered a new piece of malware that is being used to target Linux and FreeBSD web servers in order to make them a part of the wide botnet, even without the need of any root privileges.



Researchers dubbed the malware as Mayhem, a nasty malware modular that includes a number of payloads to cause malicious things and targets to



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To be fair it looks like quite a well constructed piece of malware, but servers running an up to date system have very little to worry about (although most servers run outdated software)