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New Linux Trojan Can Spy on Users by Taking Screenshots and Recording Audio (drweb.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Dr.Web, a Russian antivirus maker, has detected a new threat against Linux users: the Linux.Ekoms.1 trojan. It includes functionality that allows it to take screenshots and record audio. While the screenshot activity is working just fine, Dr.Web says the trojan's audio recording feature has not been turned on, despite being included in the malware's source code. "All information transmitted between the server and Linux.Ekoms.1 is encrypted. The encryption is initially performed using the public key; and the decryption is executed by implementing the RSA_public_decrypt function to the received data. The Trojan exchanges data with the server using AbNetworkMessage."
Dr.Web malware specialists have not disclosed how this malware infects Linux computers.
But they are willing to sell you their Linux antivirus software.
From what I've gathered, it's written in C++, uses Qt 5.4 or higher (that's when the enumeration value QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation was added to Qt) and it's not self-propagating.
So basically, it's a program that has to be installed on your computer... maybe from a compromised package repo server.
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has detected a new threat against Linux users
What, all twelve of them?
I suppose you are using a windows phone or surface rt and are puzzled as to why there are more Linux users in the world than WP OS and WInRT users combined? I give the guys at DrWeb credit for trying to make money from us skin flint Linux users. Considering the fact that Mint Linux is starting to really catch on and has more users than WP OS and Surface RT users combined and it is only one distro that has millions of users. The fact that old computers and laptops are easily made to efficiently work by the millions in a large part because of Linux, your troll is starting to wear a little thin, and many people know it.
The truth is Windows is quickly becoming irrelevant on the home desktop because of the blatantly obvious planned obsolescence built into Windows. Hell I have a 6 year old atom 512 dual core 64 mini desktop with 4 gig of ram and it runs 7 fine. But is not compatible of running Win 10 and this is by design! When 7 goes for a shit and loses support I am almost willing to bet that most hardware that has been obsoleted by Microshaft will run the latest linux kernel and destops just fine.
Same goes for my old T42 non pae laptop which still gets 4-5 hours on a nine cell. All you have to do is know which kernel to run and bingo you can even run non PAE 32 mode procs on Linux...TRY THAT with windows! Stop trying to obscure the truth and spread bullshit about linux desktop distros, they are stellar at keeping the best gear from being thrown in the garbage dump and more and more people are starting to realize the truth about how advanced and flexible linux has really become in the past 15 years or so.
So I don't blame the antivirus snake oil salesmen for trying to get on the band wagon because Windows is more secure only because most people who hose their old gear just trash it after Windows obsoletes it. The whole desktop computer industry is changing and there is starting to be a large market for Linux because of the way it can keep gear going.
what point? he/she totally missed my point that its about anti virus maker trying to makes sales with crap information. i couldn't care if its a trojan or virus, if you can't say how it gets onto a machine, then your case for it being a problem seems very bogus. Virtually all antivirus suppliers have come up with crap scare stories to get linux users to buy their product.
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