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Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by SJSmith@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] flyos@jlai.lu 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not particularly security savvy, but :

The infected devices then attempt to crack the telnet password by guessing default and commonly used credential pairs.

My understanding is that the worm is targetting connected devices with supidly simple credentials, which is why "Internet-of-Things" is mentioned?

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago

Looking at sites like insecam.org, the amount of devices still sett to admin/admin is frighteningly high

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