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The obvious question not answered (but asked) in the article is: "Who put it there and why?" Surely this should be easily knowable?
by DelaneyM 5y ago
The obvious question not answered (but asked) in the article is: "Who put it there and why?"
Surely this should be easily knowable?
- detaro 5y agoHow would that be easy? If I put a random file on your computer X years ago while trying to cover my tracks, how would you tell when and how I did it?
- laburn 5y agoAttribution of malware can be difficult and the lack of details like who was targeted and missing plugins don't leave enough information to guess who might have been interested in developing this.
- temp667 5y agoIt's not actually shipping with Linux - someone installed a virus. That's really it.
- jokoon 5y agoWell this might be answered by asking who got it, what is their business, etc. In general good malwares either try to make money or have some kind of geopolitical goal (industrial spying etc). Information is power, but generally, a good hacker would know how to obfuscate the reasons why he is putting malware.