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Linux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen worm
(arstechnica.com)
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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.
Conventional Linux use should be fine. It's targeting SSH connections to other things over the net; connecting to a server, remote camera, etc. So it reverse engineers the connection by brute-forcing(?) Weak ssh passwords to install the malware.
I'm not an IT professional but this is my layman interpretation.