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SSHD rootkit in the wild

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There are a lot of discussions at the moment about a SSHD rootkit hitting mainly RPM based Linux distributions. Thanks to our reader unSpawn, we received a bunch of samples of the rootkit. The rootkit is actually a trojanized library that links with SSHD and does *a lot* of nasty things to the system.

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