Unnoticed For Years, Malware Turned Linux Servers Into Spamming Machines

Posted by timothy on Friday May 1, 2015 @07:42PM from the just-where-you-least-expect-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes: For over 5 years, and perhaps even longer, servers around the world running Linux and FreeBSD operating systems have been targeted by an individual or group that compromised them via a backdoor Trojan, then made them send out spam, ESET researchers have found. What's more, it seems that the spammers are connected with a software company called Yellsoft, which sells DirectMailer, a "system for automated e-mail distribution" that allows users to send out anonymous email in bulk. Here's the white paper in which the researchers explain the exploit.

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Re:Detector, please by Khyber · 2015-05-02 01:53 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Drop Linux, learn MenuetOS, don't worry about getting infected by this kind of crap, and enjoy INSTANT boot-up/reboot/shut down and about a 400% speed improvement over current Linux.
Sure, it's proprietary, but as long as you understand ASM, you can do anything you want, more than Linux can.

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