{"id":1209862,"date":"2023-12-08T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209862"},"modified":"2023-12-08T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T20:54:09","slug":"stealthy-linux-rootkit-found-in-the-wild-after-going-undetected-for-2-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209862","title":{"rendered":"Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/trojan-backdoor-800x534-1.jpg\" alt=\"Trojan horse on top of blocks of hexadecimal programming codes. Illustration of the concept of online hacking, computer spyware, malware and ransomware.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/trojan-backdoor.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"667\" data-width=\"1000\">Enlarge<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Stealthy and multifunctional Linux malware that has been infecting telecommunications companies went largely unnoticed for two years until being documented for the first time by researchers on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from security firm Group-IB have named the remote access trojan \u201cKrasue,\u201d after a nocturnal spirit <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krasue\">depicted in Southeast Asian folklore <\/a> \u201cfloating in mid-air, with no torso, just her intestines hanging from below her chin.\u201d The researchers chose the name because evidence to date shows it almost exclusively targets victims in Thailand and \u201cposes a severe risk to critical systems and sensitive data given that it is able to grant attackers remote access to the targeted network.<\/p>\n<p>According to the researchers:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989775#p3\">Read 9 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989775&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1989775\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stealthy Linux rootkit found in the wild after going undetected for 2 years<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge Stealthy and multifunctional Linux malware that has been infecting telecommunications companies went largely unnoticed for two years until being documented for the first time by researchers on Thursday. Researchers from security firm Group-IB have named the remote access trojan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1209862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1209862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1209862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1209862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1209862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1209862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}