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I imagine this is targeting Redhat Desktop installations then, as Red Hat is pretty big on GNOME, and as we all know, GNOME/Redhat has been at the spearhead of
by Arbalest 7y ago
I imagine this is targeting Redhat Desktop installations then, as Red Hat is pretty big on GNOME, and as we all know, GNOME/Redhat has been at the spearhead of many unpopular systems, such as NetworkManager.
So my guess is, they're targeting Redhat Desktop, because it's the most likely Linux desktop to be seen in the corporate space. My old university had RHEL client machines.
Maybe they're just trying to get ahead of the curve with this?
Edit: Also, lately there has been more noise from more governments about using Linux, so yeah, getting ahead of the curve.
- quicklime 7y agoMaybe, but don't Ubuntu and Debian also come with GNOME as the default desktop?
- Arbalest 7y agoActually that's a fair point. IIRC google has their own version of Ubuntu. However, I also expect google to be all over this kind of thing, but government and corporate, not so much.
- est31 7y agoFYI they use Debian now: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-house-linux-desktop/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-moves-to-debian-for-in-...
- SmellyGeekBoy 7y agoThey certainly do. Worth bearing in mind that this attack seems to be XOrg only and current versions of Ubuntu now default to Wayland.
- teekert 7y agoNot the LTS's which are over 90% of installs.
- Crinus 7y agoOnly the "ShooterImage" component relies on Xorg (the other components work regardless of window system). Note that the reason Wayland isn't affected is because the malware doesn't use the API needed for taking screenshots.
- simion314 7y ago>Ubuntu now default to Wayland. I think Ubuntu changed their minds and went back to Xorg, also Wayland+GNOME Shell has the terrible issue where the shell crashes would bring down your session and you lose all your work. Debian just switched to Wayland so in the fallowing months we will see the effects, it could be a new pulse audio situation where you will get a lot of "fixes" starting by removing Wayland.
- opencl 7y agoOnly 17.10 defaulted to Wayland, all older and newer versions default to xorg.
- wongarsu 7y agoI would expect Gnome to be the window manager of >80% of Linux installs. I don't think Redhat is particularly special in this regard, even if it is a particularly juicy target.