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[-] INeedMana@piefed.zip 2 points 3 weeks ago

Ah. Yeah, nuke it from orbit. Since this was RAT, so it had local execution powers and the attackers knew exactly which distro they are targetting, they could have used some security vulnerability to get root and even replace the kernel in worst case. Hopefully not microcode insertion, so hardware could be ok

But then, it wasn't an attack on an existing package. So the question is how many people did actually download those

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