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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."
What sort of mouth breathing moron can't reinstall windows and get a few drivers organised without the recovery image? I've been doing just that for years and it really is very easy.
And if you can't handle a windows install, why on earth are you futzing around with trying to install Linux.
Slashdot users these days ....
And this is why these companies use scary announcements. Most people will not understand it's a non-event. They just see the headline and panic. The media also are unskilled (that's why they're reporters and not real developers or engineers). But they know roughly what keywords mean and try to create tech-articles based on anything that'll draw in clicks, or fuel forum/comment rage. You'll find the same issue in every field. My wife is always showing similar crap regarding medical scares.
Key point being "went down", rather than pose any risk to their users they decided to shut everything down until they could properly investigate the breach.
Any commercial business would want to be back up and running again as soon as possible, even if that meant cutting corners.
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as they haven't disclosed how you get infected, i see this as the usual antivirus maker ploy of trying to increase sales by scare stories with nothing to back it up.
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)
where on earth did i say it was a virus, dickhead? or shall i change "infected" to "deployed" to make your stupid nitpicking mind happier?
"The hands that help are better far than lips that pray." - Robert Ingersoll (1833-1899)