Not sure why this made it on the HN frontpage.
It seems its lacking any relevant information and is mostly some marketing for an antivirus vendor that tries to tell Linux users they need antiviruses, too.
It seems its lacking any relevant information and is mostly some marketing for an antivirus vendor that tries to tell Linux users they need antiviruses, too.
> Doctor Web security researchers presume that at least tens of users have already fallen victim to this Trojan.
"presume" .. tens of users ..
Right, a bit more details on the infection vector would have helped to properly validate the concerns. But when you start presuming and pull numbers out of a high hat I'm almost ready to discard it.
The only thing we know now is that "something" needs to be run with admin privileges.
Just make sure your backups are OK.
No word on how it spreads. Also, unsurprisingly:
> Once launched with administrator privileges, etc.
If you do that, you kind of deserve to get infected...