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Yea, probably 1% or less of desktop users. However, I bet those targets would be extremely high value (dev environments, server access). I am sure advanced grou
by TACIXAT 7y ago
Yea, probably 1% or less of desktop users. However, I bet those targets would be extremely high value (dev environments, server access). I am sure advanced groups heavily invest in gaining access to servers.
- gh02t 7y agoYeah, a lot of high-value secure systems run Linux and GNU. Web services, government systems, the vast majority (edit: it's now all) of the TOP500 supercomputers etc. I suspect at least part of it is that these systems get much more targeted attacks because of their high value, whereas viruses are to an extent un-targeted shotgun attacks. I suspect the economics of virus writing dictate that most of the effort is put towards the most popular platform, i.e. Windows.
- Godel_unicode 7y agoThe thing there is you almost never need external tooling post-exploitation on Linux; it ships with most of the tools you could want. Add on that nobody seems to be able to harden web servers or SSH, and why would you need "viruses" in a targeted attack? Hack naked, and there's no hash to find.