[PLUG] Serious linux malware

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2020, Russell Senior wrote:

> Fwiw, my take when I saw the report was along the lines of "Oh, that's
> interesting, what was the infection vector, how do I discover if a box is
> infected, etc" and the supposed "technical details" were a bunch of
> handwaving and then a suggestion to not run a kernel before 3.6 or
> something. Who is still running a kernel as old as 3.6?

Russell,

I would have expected more specifics from ArsTechnica. Missed the reference
to a 3.6.x kernel.

Thanks for you insights,

Rich