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New Linux crypto-miner steals your root password and disables your antivirus

Trojan also installs a rootkit and another strain of malware that can execute DDoS attacks.

 

23rd November, 2018 By Catalin Cimpanu 

 

Malware targeting Linux users may not be as widespread as the strains targeting the Windows ecosystem, but Linux malware is becoming just as complex and multi-functional as time passes by.

 

The latest example of this trend is a new trojan discovered this month by Russian antivirus maker Dr.Web. This new malware strain doesn’t have a distinctive name, yet, being only tracked under its generic detection name of Linux.BtcMine.174.

 

But despite the generic name, the trojan is a little bit more complex than most Linux malware, mainly because of the plethora of malicious features it includes.

 

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