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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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[–] sir_reginald 93 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (14 children)

this makes use of an old windows specific vulnerability. Linux is only mentioned on the title, not again in the whole article. clickbait.

edit: downvote me if you want, but the original article didn't say a thing about Linux.

[–] Salamendacious 35 points 1 year ago (7 children)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stripedfly-malware-framework-infects-1-million-windows-linux-hosts/

On Linux, the malware assumes the name 'sd-pam'. It achieves persistence using systemd services, an autostarting .desktop file, or by modifying various profile and startup files, such as /etc/rc*, profile, bashrc, or inittab files.

[–] Buffalox 47 points 1 year ago (6 children)

That's from a completely different article.

And it doesn't say how this is achieved without already having root privilegies. I'm not sure I believe this can in fact infect a Linux system, except if it's already heavily compromised, for instance by a user logging in as root as default.

[–] LDerJim 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe if root is shared via SMB1 and is rw

[–] Buffalox 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not possible AFAIK, I don't use anything Microsoft, but AFAIK SMB1 shares on Linux are through Samba, and you can't just enable write permissions without root. So as I stated before, the Linux system needs to be already compromised.

[–] LDerJim 1 points 1 year ago

Users can configure the system however they want.

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