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First Shellshock Botnet Attacking Akamai, US DoD Networks

Posted by samzenpus on from the that-didn't-take-very-long dept.

Bismillah writes The Bash "Shellshock" bug is being used to spread malware to create a botnet, that's active and attacking Akamai and Department of Defense networks. "The 'wopbot' botnet is active and scanning the internet for vulnerable systems, including at the United States Department of Defence, chief executive of Italian security consultancy Tiger Security, Emanuele Gentili, told iTnews. 'We have found a botnet that runs on Linux servers, named “wopbot", that uses the Bash Shellshock bug to auto-infect other servers,' Gentili said."

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  1. patched my servers last month by alen · · Score: -1, Troll

    just read the code and code the patch yourself, easy

  2. Re:What a goddamn disaster. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HERP! Paying money automatically means more secure! DERP!

  3. The silence is deafening by ErnoWindt · · Score: -1, Troll

    Only 51 comments as of this post? Sort of like way back when Sun Microsystems tried to trademark "enterprise". Crickets. One can only imagine the trollbait / flamestorm that would break out if Shellshock were a Microsoft bug. Time to put on some pants, UNIX/Linux geeks: ain't no operating system out there immune to error. Or, as Immanuel Kant once wrote: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."

  4. Re:Amazing... by jones_supa · · Score: -1, Troll

    Windows users generally don't have a chip on their shoulder.

    Linux users generally hate Windows a lot more than Windows users hate Linux.

    I can confirm that. The difference I have noticed is that if I point a flaw in Windows to Windows users, they say "that's true, we need to push Microsoft to do better". If I point a flaw in Linux to Linux users, they act like a kid whose lollipop has been taken away, get all angry and defensive, and try to downplay the issue.