0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoKaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threatswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down163
arrow-up143arrow-down1external-linkKaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threatswww.bleepingcomputer.com0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square74fedilink
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·7 months agoYes and if viruses use something like base64 encoding or other methods, the hashes dont match anymore. As far as I understood it, it is pretty easy to make your virus permanently un-hashable by just always changing some bits
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoThe xz backdoor was a packaged file distributed with the standard packages though. It would be trivial to find.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThis is obviously not about this known file. It is about “would this scanner detect a system package from the official repos opening an ssh connection”
minus-squareatzanteol@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoSorry, I was responding to: I HIGHLY doubt that they would detect the XZ backdoor
Yes and if viruses use something like base64 encoding or other methods, the hashes dont match anymore.
As far as I understood it, it is pretty easy to make your virus permanently un-hashable by just always changing some bits
The xz backdoor was a packaged file distributed with the standard packages though. It would be trivial to find.
This is obviously not about this known file.
It is about “would this scanner detect a system package from the official repos opening an ssh connection”
Sorry, I was responding to: