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Ask HN: What was the most prominent linux-attacking worm or virus, if any?
I am curious, given the recent spate of events.
- bediger4000 9y agoFor most prominent, I'm going to nominate the "slapper" worm: http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Content/2002.09.13.html http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/security/Conte... For the most interesting, look for "cheese" worm: https://www.cnet.com/news/cheese-worm-a-linux-fixer-upper/ https://www.cnet.com/news/cheese-worm-a-linux-fixer-upper/ There are a largish number of worms that have affected Linux machines, it's not clear how much traction any of them got. The "slapper" worm had a slightly different offset for the writeable memory for each distro's version of Apache (1.3.x at the time). Even when distros had the same version of Apache source, they all compiled it differently, so the exploit had to be customized. This illustrates one way for a population of vulnerable computers to resist infection: have a fractured software version base.