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Also I thought this part was interesting:
Special note for Israeli users: If the malware determines that your location is Israel (it does this via locale and timezone checks) then it has a 1:6 chance that it will play a loud siren sound and run rm -rf /, essentially attempting to wipe your filesystem.
From the river to the C:/
It turns out the malware doesn't work because it runs subprocess.run(["rm", "-rf", "/*"])
That will never delete anything, since there is no shell to expand the glob in /* here, so rm gets a literal /* as the path to delete 😭
This is why you test your code, people
Which leads to the interesting question: How do the authors of infectious, destructive viruses test their code?
I'd set up an air-gapped test network. Could possibly set up some virtual hosts to emulate part of it, but I'd keep the whole setup isolated as a failsafe.
Whew, thankfully it didn’t work on my machine!
That's prettyfuvking based
That's kind of awesome
I think I'm on team malware now
Maybe now they'll figure out that they need to vote Netanyahu out of office for being a genocidal piece of shit
tbf the vast majority of that country support him and everything he stands for, so getting rid of one fascist won't change much
Right they need a properly omnicidal megalomanic no mere genocide
That’s not malware.
That’s amazing.
It also trys to steal passwords/keys/etc, the Russian roulette part is just extra for people in Israel.
Is this considered Chaotic Good or Lawful Evil?
Definitely not evil
Eh the password stealing shit definitely is but the special conditions for "israel" are hilarious (even if their code is borked and doesn't actually work)
That’s fair. I hope Israel gets what’s coming to them.
Unless the option --no-preserve-root is given, it should not execute.
Fun fact:
rm -rf / requires —no-preserve-root to work whereas rm -rf /* doesn’t.
That’s because the /* gets expanded by the shell before the command runs and it only sees the request to delete /var, /dev, /home, /usr,… recursively but not / specifically.
On another note: This line in the code doesn’t run through a shell and thus this won’t work and it just tries to delete the literal path of /* recursively - and thus fails to do any damage…
I haven't opened cemu in like a year. Am I good?
Yes, you would have had to downloaded a recent update, and run it at least twice.
Thank you. I've been grinding ni no kuni 2 on the ps5 instead of trying to play whatever I was trying to play on cemu. It was one of the Zeldas.
If you are on Windows, MacOS, or used the Flatpak version, you are not affected by this malware.
Flatpacker here. Thank you for including this
The following files and directories may be created by the malware: /tmp/.transformers /usr/bin/pgmonitor.py ~/.local/bin/pgmonitor.py /etc/systemd/system/pgsql-monitor.service ~/.config/systemd/user/pgsql-monitor.service /tmp/kubectl The absence of these files does not prove that you are safe.
Wouldn't the Steamdecks immutability prevent changes to the filesystem in these folders? After rebooting at least.
/tmp/kubectl
If someone has kubectl installed on their steam deck, they have more problems than just malware. For example: workaholism.
Some of the directories are in the home (the tilda ~ means home of the current user) and home directory is not immutable
You're right, I missed the tilda.