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New Worm Targets Linux Web Service Holes

Posted by tadelste on · 5 comments
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The Linux.Plupii worm is attacking Linux distributions via several Web service related holes.

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AnonymousCoward ·
The remote control opens on ports 7111 and 7222, and it doesn't do anything local except open a listener on one or the other of those ports (there are (so far) two variants, the only reported difference being that port number). If you (as I do) set your machines up with French Foreign Legion firewalling rules ("you shall do nothing except") then this won't be a problem for you.

I'm also seeing a lot of ssh login attempts recently, on those few machines I have which still run sshd on the default port.
tuxchick ·
It's a pretty punky threat. Poor little feeble thing.
AnonymousCoward ·
Perhaps we can ask the authors to publish the source, so we can have a real threat for a change? (-:
tuxchick ·
heh, yes, after all the FOSS ideal "collaborate, improve, share" :)
tadelste Story submitter ·
Hey, I quoted you two in an article - actually you made the article since the majority of text is yours.

I thought it worked pretty well.

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