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Thousands of Linux systems infected by stealthy malware since 2021 (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

maybe the number of files it scans looking for misconfigurations

So how did it get into the system to be able to scan configuration files?

[โ€“] nyan@lemmy.cafe 4 points 4 months ago

Separate remote code execution vulnerability in unupdated versions of RocketMQ, a Chinese-developed messaging/streaming server, in the case of the infection described in the article. It's possible that there are a few other RCE vulns it can make use of, but 20000 of them seems unlikely.