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Ransomware affecting #GNU-Linux; another good reason to keep your server up-to-date and patched, with regular backups
http://qttr.at/1ut9-
See also the Fairware ransomware targeting #GNU-Linux servers
http://qttr.at/1utc-
@strypey Sounds like FUD. Meaningless to talk about "Linux servers" unless it's a kernel vulnerability. As for "directly eliminates the web folder" of "servers based on Linus" [sic] - has the hack who wrote this ever used a computer?
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@mjd I would like to tell people they can be completely safe from ransomware if they're running #GNU-Linux. But it's not strictly true.
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@mjd that any vulnerability exists is good to know, no matter how trivial, for the purposes of 'undersell and over-deliver' (not vice-versa)
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@strypey In the comments the author continues: "The virus is genuinely created for Linux computers, but I am not sure what it’s source code is based on. It may primarily attack Linux PCs that have been configured to run as servers." Utter gibberish.
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@strypey This one exploits "a flaw in the popular [sic] Magento content management system", not a flaw in #GNU or in #Linux. So yes, the potentially dozens of Magento users should be on the alert. http://ur1.ca/qy6by
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