On 2022-12-15 14:18:41 David T-G wrote:
David, et al --
...and then David C. Rankin said... % ... % https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/13/cryptoming_chaos_rat_targets_linux/ [trimmed and snipped]
Thanks for the pointer!
Speaking of which ... What are folks' favorite malware scanners? Do you favor anything other than (or in addition to) ClamAV? It's probably time I revisted the topic after having been conveniently comfortable for a long time ...
TIA & Happy Holidays to all
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A quick search on DuckDuckGo for "linux malware scanner" found a couple besides ClamAV (I didn't read the actual articles, just the synopses): Malscan (malware scanner for web servers) malware protection, malware scanning. Malscan is a tool to scan for malicious software (malware) such as viruses, worms, and backdoors. Its goal is to extend ClamAV with more scanning modes and signatures. It targets web servers running Linux, but can also be used on mail servers and desktops. Lynis - Security Auditing and Rootkit Scanner. Lynis is a free, open source, powerful and popular security auditing and scanning tool for Unix/Linux like operating systems. It is a malware scanning and vulnerability detecting tool that scans systems for security information and issues, file integrity, configuration errors; performs... Linux malware detect (LMD) is a tool that can be used on the Linux system to scan, detect, and remove malware from your system. The LMD can be used as a backdoor scanner on Linux. Leslie -- Platform: GNU/Linux Hardware: x86_64 Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.4 Desktop Environment: Trinity Qt: 3.5.0 TDE: R14.0.13 tde-config: 1.0