Linux Malware Delivered via Malicious RAR Filenames Evades Antivirus Detection

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a novel attack chain that employs phishing emails to deliver an open-source backdoor called VShell. The "Linux-specific malware infection chain that starts with a spam email with a malicious RAR archive file," Trellix researcher Sagar Bade said in a...

CVE-2011-10018

CVE-2011-10018 affects myBB 1.6.4, where an unauthorized backdoor was embedded in the source during packaging, enabling remote PHP code execution via a crafted collapsed cookie with no authentication. Exploitation leads to full compromise of the web server under the web app’s context. No fix vers...

ProFTPd 1.3.3c - Compromised Source Backdoor Remote Code Execution

== ProFTPD Compromise Report == On Sunday, the 28th of November 2010 around 20:00 UTC the main distribution server of the ProFTPD project was compromised. The attackers most likely used an unpatched security issue in the FTP daemon to gain access to the server and used their privileges to replace...