Reply to post: Re: How does it get installed?

This NSA, FBI security advisory has four words you never want to see together: Fancy Bear Linux rootkit

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Re: How does it get installed?

Via a webserver running a fingerprintable CMS with unknown/unpatched vulnerabilities, and with known folders which are writable by the webserver (eg, for CMS users to use to upload images for the website) is sadly far too common a way for malware to be able to find its way aboard a server.

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