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Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the fundamental protection is always going to be the firewall that blocks all incoming connections unless you explicitly open a port for a running server.

It's frustrating that the article doesn't have much information about the delivery method for this attack. Is it a remote connection, or you have to run it locally and it escalates privileges?

[โ€“] Qvest 10 points 1 year ago

researchers from security firm Trend Micro found an encrypted binary file on a server known to be used by a group they had been tracking since 2021

Sounds like it targets servers specifically, so desktop users should be safe