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Title: New Strain of Linux Malware Could Get Serious
Post by: HCK on April 26, 2017, 04:05:17 pm
New Strain of Linux Malware Could Get Serious

A new strain of malware targeting Linux systems, dubbed "Linux/Shishiga," could morph into a dangerous security threat. Eset disclosed the threat, which represents a new Lua family unrelated to previously seen LuaBot malware. Linux/Shishiga uses four protocols -- SSH, Telnet, HTTP and BitTorrent -- and Lua scripts for modularity, wrote Detection Engineer Michal Malik and Eset researchers.

Source: New Strain of Linux Malware Could Get Serious (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84481.html?rss=1)