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Title    10,000 Linux Servers Hit by Malware
Date    Wednesday March 19 2014, @01:36AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/03/19/0120258

ancientt writes:

"'Researchers have documented an ongoing criminal operation infecting more than 10,000 Unix and Linux servers with malware that sends spam and redirects end users to malicious Web pages' as reported at Arstechnica, in an attack campaign being called Windigo.

It has been going on since 2011 and successfully hit Linux Foundation kernel.org servers and developers of cPanel. 'During its 36-month run, Windigo has compromised more than 25,000 servers with robust malware that sends more than 35 million spam messages a day and exposes Windows-based Web visitors to drive-by malware attacks."

A detailed PDF writeup is available from We Live Security.'

Links
  1. "ancientt" - mailto:ancientt@yahoo.com
  2. " Arstechnica" - http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/03/10000-linux-servers-hit-by-malware-serving-tsunami-of-spam-and-exploits/
  3. "detailed PDF writeup" - http://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/operation_windigo.pdf
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