Security researchers have discovered an unusually evasive Linux backdoor, undetected even by VirusTotal, compromising systems as a malicious pluggable authentication module (PAM). Dubbed “Plague” by ...

A newly discovered Linux backdoor called Plague evades detection by traditional antivirus tools. It embeds itself in the system’s PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module) to bypass SSH login security.

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A cryptomining operation has been observed abandoning root access on compromised Linux servers in favor of impersonating low-privileged users, a deliberate downgrade designed to avoid the alerts that ...