brute force ssh attack

[Nigel Wade]

Gustavo Seabra wrote:
> On 4/27/05, Håkan Persson <hakan at zyberit.com> wrote:
> 
>>Daniel Kirsten wrote:
>>
>>
>>>wget www.ring.as.ro/x/qwe.tgz
>>>
>>>
>>
>>This is what Symantec thinks of the content of the file:
>>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/linux.rst.b.html
>>
>>/Håkan
> 
> 
> Well, so much for the "do not wory about viruses in Linux machines" stories...
> 

Number of infections 0-49, number of sites 0-2 - over 3 years.
Wow, it's speading like wildfire... help, help!

It has no escalation mechanism, so can only infect ELF files to which the 
user infected has write permission.

Threat ~0.


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