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Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm
(arstechnica.com)
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this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2024
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So as a new Linux guy that just has Ubuntu installed on a laptop running media server, sounds like I shouldn’t be worried since it is NAT’d behind my router and this worm compromises telnet and SSH connections. Am I getting the gist right? Totally newb here again.
Not particularly security savvy, but :
My understanding is that the worm is targetting connected devices with supidly simple credentials, which is why "Internet-of-Things" is mentioned?
Looking at sites like insecam.org, the amount of devices still sett to admin/admin is frighteningly high