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Microsoft detects surge in Linux XorDDoS malware activity (bleepingcomputer.com)
15 points by rntn on May 21, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Original Microsoft blog post: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/05/19/rise-in-x...

Two things worth noting:

* There's no information provided on the raw volume of this malware. Large fluctuations don't mean much with low volumes - if 50 machines were infected last month and 127 were infected this month, that's their 254% right there.

* The blog post is more or less an ad for "Microsoft Defender for Endpoint" and Microsoft Edge.

Curious readers might compare and contrast this similar blog post about Windows malware: https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2022/04/12/tarrask-m...


Isn’t Microsoft always championing Linux malware? Anyway it appears to get in through SSH with default passwords so it’s nothing to worry about as usual. Typical MS anti-Linux FUD like this is issued by MS quarterly at least lol.




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