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Stealthy Linux Trojan May Have Infected Victims For Years

An anonymous reader writes: Researchers from Moscow-based Kaspersky Labs have uncovered an extremely stealthy trojan for Linux systems that attackers have been using to siphon sensitive data from governments and pharmaceutical companies around the world.

The malware may have sat unnoticed on at least one victim computer for years, although Kaspersky Lab researchers still have not confirmed that suspicion. The trojan is able to run arbitrary commands even though it requires no elevated system privileges.

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  1. systemd hasn't been around that long, has it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought that the systemd infection of Debian was much more recent than that. Like within the past year. But maybe I'm wrong, and it has been longer?