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Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs (www.pcmag.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Salamendacious to c/technology
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Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of 'StripedFly' malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that's been targeting PCs for more than five years.

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[–] Buffalox 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It does include this:

quietly spread across a victim’s network, including to Linux machines.

But that's a completely ridiculous lack of detail of any actual vulnerability. Smells like bullshit.
The quote from OP is from a different article.

[–] Salamendacious 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I wasn't intentionally trying to imply that it came from the article. That's why I posted the naked link. I wasn't really thinking about the Linux component when I posted the article.

[–] Buffalox 11 points 1 year ago

That’s why I posted the naked link.

Which is perfectly fine and dandy. I think some people just had a knee jerk reaction, based on a misunderstanding of context.