this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2024
181 points (87.6% liked)

Technology

62814 readers
4986 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s
enu
technopagan
L4s
181
Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
35 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Buffalox 77 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

This story reeks of FUD.

exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets,

Because a "common misconfiguration" will absolutely make your system vulnerable!?!
OK show just ONE!

This is FUD to either prevent people from using Linux, or simply a hoax to get attention, or maybe to make you think you need additional security software.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Crowd strike looking for a new market?

[–] ITeeTechMonkey 25 points 4 months ago

Unfortunately they are already in the market and making a mess: https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ssh with an easy to guess root password?

[–] Buffalox 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Wouldn't that simply be a user mistake?
It's kind of like saying if you remove the password completely, it's vulnerable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what does FUD stand for?

[–] Agent641 4 points 4 months ago

Fear, uncertainty and doubt