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Linux malware backdoors supercomputers

02

Feb

2021

ESET researchers discovered Kobalos, a malware that has been attacking supercomputers – high performance computer (HPC) clusters – as well as other targets such as a large Asian ISP, a North American endpoint security vendor, and several privately held servers. “Perhaps unrelated to the events involving Kobalos, there were multiple security incidents involving HPC clusters […]

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Linux/SSHDoor.A Backdoored SSH daemon that steals passwords

25

Jan

2013

In his summary of New Year predictions by security researchers here at ESET, Stephen Cobb pointed to expanded efforts by malware authors to target the Linux operating system. Looks like that might be right: A blog post published by Sucuri yesterday describes a backdoored version of the SSH daemon discovered on compromised servers. Interestingly, this […]

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Flaw in OS X Lion allows unauthorized password changes

20

Sep

2011

A researcher at the Defense in Depth blog has discovered a flaw in Apple’s recently released operating system, OS X 10.7 (Lion), which allows passwords to be changed without knowledge of the logged in user’s password. The flaw appears related to Apple’s move towards a local directory service which has permissions set in an insecure […]

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