SJSmith@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 months agoLinux devices are under attack by a never-before-seen wormarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down169
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minus-squarecyberpunk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoWhat use is an immutable system, if it doesn’t already have the data on it that an attacker can steal?
minus-squareexcitingburp@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 months agoWorms are near impossible to install on an immutable system. You can’t just write to /usr/share/bin or some other truck to hide your binary. It doesn’t help at all with exfiltration
minus-squarecyberpunk007@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·10 months agoYour last sentence is exactly my point.
What use is an immutable system, if it doesn’t already have the data on it that an attacker can steal?
Worms are near impossible to install on an immutable system. You can’t just write to /usr/share/bin or some other truck to hide your binary. It doesn’t help at all with exfiltration
Your last sentence is exactly my point.