This, combined with the fact that so far only Dr. Web is reporting on it, makes it appear suspect. Besides, once someone has root access to your *nix server, o

This, combined with the fact that so far only Dr. Web is reporting on it, makes it appear suspect. Besides, once someone has root access to your *nix server, or at least privilege escalation (either of which would be required for this exploit to work), they already own you and can do whatever they want anyway. If you have a good backup scheme in place this is little more than a headache and a few hours of work to recover from. The only way I see this being a catastrophic exploit is if you end up with it on your home box with no offsite or air gapped backup. This holds true for Windows based ransomware attacks that do actually exist; nothing about this is unique, if it's even real.