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Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs (www.pcmag.com)

submitted 10 months ago by Salamendacious@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of 'StripedFly' malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that's been targeting PCs for more than five years.

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[–] sir_reginald@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

this makes use of an old windows specific vulnerability. Linux is only mentioned on the title, not again in the whole article. clickbait.

edit: downvote me if you want, but the original article didn't say a thing about Linux.

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

It does include this:

quietly spread across a victim’s network, including to Linux machines.

But that's a completely ridiculous lack of detail of any actual vulnerability. Smells like bullshit.
The quote from OP is from a different article.

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