A new strain of malware targeting Linux systems, dubbed “Linux/Shishiga,” could morph into a dangerous security threat. Eset on Tuesday disclosed the threat, which represents a new Lua family unrelated to previously seen LuaBot malware. Linux/Shishiga uses four different protocols — SSH, Telnet, HTTP and BitTorrent — and Lua scripts for modularity, wrote Detection Engineer Michal Malik and the Eset research team. “Lua is a language of choice of APT makers,” noted Nick Bilogorskiy, senior director of threat operations at Cyphort.
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New Strain of Linux Malware Could Get Serious
Posted by: Jack M. Germain April 25, 2017 04:14 PMA new strain of malware targeting Linux systems, dubbed “Linux/Shishiga,” could morph into a dangerous security threat. Eset on Tuesday disclosed the threat, which represents a new Lua family unrelated to previously seen LuaBot malware. Linux/Shishiga uses four different protocols — SSH, Telnet, HTTP and BitTorrent — and Lua scripts for modularity, wrote Detection Engineer Michal Malik and the Eset research team. “Lua is a language of choice of APT makers,” noted Nick Bilogorskiy, senior director of threat operations at Cyphort.