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[RSS] - Mayhem — A New Malware Targets Linux and FreeBSD Web Servers - rssdog - 07-25-2014
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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RE: [RSS] - Mayhem — A New Malware Targets Linux and FreeBSD Web Servers - chmod - 07-25-2014
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piece of malware, but servers running an up to date system have very little to worry about (although most servers run outdated software)