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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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[โ€“] Buffalox@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not possible AFAIK, I don't use anything Microsoft, but AFAIK SMB1 shares on Linux are through Samba, and you can't just enable write permissions without root. So as I stated before, the Linux system needs to be already compromised.

[โ€“] LDerJim@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Users can configure the system however they want.