Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years::Krasue infects telecom firms in Thailand using techniques for staying under the radar.

    • d3Xt3r@lemmy.nz
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      1 year ago

      SELinux, grsecurity, containers, keep your system updated and don’t run random untrustworthy code.

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        1 year ago

        random untrustworthy code.

        Honestly, is there much code in the world which doesn’t meet this description? How do you propose we decide what is trustworthy? Every time I update my packages I’m getting possibly millions of new lines of code that I can’t possibly personally vet

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          11 months ago

          Those packages are vetted by multiple maintainers from different places, they’d all have to be in on it.