"Hand of Thief Trojan targets all common Linux distributions"

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 07 September 2013 10:54:05 Kevin O'Gorman did opine:

> It's interesting.  I read this yesterday.
> 
> This morning I was doing moderator chores, and there was a message
> from Chase.  Of course it looked very odd coming to this list, but if
> it had come to me directly, it would not have seemed so strange except
> for the use of "don't" and "in anyway" for which a bank would have
> used "do not" and "in any way".  It even directed me to log in to
> "chase.com" which is entirely safe.
> 
> However, that was just the first screenful.  The HTML that followed
> _looked_ like it was going to chase, but the actual link was somewhere
> else.
> 
> Now this may have been the ordinary, feckless attack that has been
> failing to breach Linux all along.  Maybe not.  But I am taking note.
 
I got two copies, slightly different, purporting to come from CNN, 
announcing that the bombing (with lots of miss-spelled words) in Syria had 
already begun.  I did not even look at the links, but I imagine they did 
NOT go to CNN's machines.  And I am NOT subscribed to anything at CNN.

For the offshore folks, CNN is a major news site here in the states.

> On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 11:34 AM, John Hupp <ubuntu at prpcompany.com> wrote:
> > I understand that with a standard Ubuntu/Lubuntu installation not
> > running Wine, it is believed that there are no active threats that
> > would responsibly require resident anti-virus protection.
> > 
> > That may still be true today, but perhaps it won't be for too much
> > longer. See the last 3 paragraphs of this article:
> > 
> > http://www.crn.com/news/security/240160712/security-firms-warn-of-pote
> > ntial-banking-trojan-attacks.htm?cid=nl_sec
> > 
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