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First Botnet of Linux Web Servers Discovered

theregister.co.uk

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"But in addition to running an Apache webserver to dish up benign content, they've also been hacked to run a second webserver known as nginx, which serves malware."

This poor writing, especially the use of the non-restrictive relative clause ("which", not "that"), suggests that nginx is designed to serve malware almost exclusively.

"nginx is a specialized second webserver that can serve any kind of malware"

Are you quoting? Because that is not true. It's just a webserver, general purpose use.

I took my inspiration from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/9a5l7/xml_is_a_...

Yes, I'm aware... I use nginx every day at work. Great little webserver :)

Is this a first linux botnet or a first web server botnet? The article makes it slightly difficult to figure out which it is.

In a way it only makes sense for bots to take over webservers as that gives them a better gateway to hundreds of other clients. I'm surprised we haven't heard of botnets like this years ago. Maybe they were just too well hidden before.

The latter, if either. Linux botnets have existed for eons... I remember seeing one in 2004, and I'm sure they existed much earlier than that.

I think this article is a joke, no?

I mean, "a second webserver known as nginx, which serves malware," cooked up by evil Russians, deviously operating on port 8080?

Hehe. I think it's quite good, actually.

So if linux and macs got malware and viruses as often as PCs who would be out front? Microsoft should hire people to start writing mac viruses.

as PCs? you mean as Windows. Anyway isn't there a IE5 version or something for mac? That thing should could easily be classified as malware for mac written by microsoft.

There was, but it was discontinued by Microsoft in 2005 when Safari was released.

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