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Pokémon-inspired rootkit attacks Linux systems [Ed: Media hyping up "Linux" threat which requires 1) the cracker has access to the device. 2) cracker installs malware.]
Provides backdoor and traffic-hiding capabilities.
A new persistent stealthy malware that can give attackers full control over Linux servers has been discovered by researchers.
Researcher Fernando Mercês with security vendor Trend Micro said the malware - a rootkit family - is named after a character in the Pokémon fantasy game called Umbreon.
Umbreon is a dark Pokémon that hides in the night, an "appropriate characteristic for a rootkit," Mercês wrote.
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Pokémon-loving VXer targets Linux with 'Umbreon' rootkit [Ed: More hysteria, now in British media, over something that's not a real risk, thanks to self promotion]
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LuaBot Is the First Botnet Malware Coded in Lua Targeting Linux Platforms [Ed: so don’t install malware]
Unlike Mirai, which is the fruit of a two-year-long coding frenzy, LuaBot is in its early stages of development, with the first detection being reported only a week ago and a zero detection rate on VirusTotal for current samples.
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Nearly 800,000 Brazzers Porn Site Accounts Exposed in Forum Hack [Ed: Remember Canonical having Ubuntu Forums cracked, twice, due to proprietary vBulletin? Well, vBulletin -- again.]
Nearly 800,000 accounts for popular porn site Brazzers have been exposed in a data breach. Although the data originated from the company's separate forum, Brazzers users who never signed up to the forum may also find their details included in the dump.
Motherboard was provided the dataset by breach monitoring site Vigilante.pw for verification purposes. The data contains 790,724 unique email addresses, and also includes usernames and plaintext passwords. (The set has 928,072 entries in all, but many are duplicates.)
Troy Hunt, a security researcher and creator of the website Have I Been Pwned? helped verify the dataset by contacting subscribers to his site, who confirmed a number of their details from the data.
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