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As far as malware attacks go, this seems to be pretty run-of-the-mill (no clever vulnerabilities used). The key seems to be that the automated malware dropping
by jbangert 12y ago
As far as malware attacks go, this seems to be pretty run-of-the-mill (no clever vulnerabilities used). The key seems to be that the automated malware dropping is adapted to all sorts of 'restricted environments' (i.e. chroot, virtual servers, non-root accounts, etc). It doesn't look like there is any privilege escalation involved (which, say in the case of most targeted attacks, there usually is).
- nwh 12y agoI think the point of the article was showing that none were really needed to still cause massive damage.
- INTPenis 12y ago> I think the point of the article was showing that none were really needed to still cause massive damage. No privilege escalation needed? I disagree, this article shows nothing new at all unless it shows how the malware gains privileges on the system. As an SELinux user that is what I am most interested in. Normally these malwares make it in through some poorly secured web server, in my experience.