IoT devices and Linux-based systems targeted by OpenSSH trojan campaign
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Microsoft researchers have recently discovered an attack leveraging custom and open-source tools to target internet-facing Linux-based systems and IoT devices.
Look over there! Someone else is getting hacked!
Pay no attention to the OS behind the curtain!
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Microsoft researchers have recently discovered an attack leveraging custom and open-source tools to target internet-facing Linux-based systems and IoT devices.
Look over there! Someone else is getting hacked!
Pay no attention to the OS behind the curtain!
Sigh. Like so many other exploits, it starts with brute-forcing a password. The clever bits come later.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Sigh. Like so many other exploits, it starts with brute-forcing a password. The clever bits come later.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
When the top few passwords are’12345’ and ‘password’, brute-forcing isn’t a high hurdle . ;P
TTFN - Kent