The novel threat steals data and can affect all processes running on the OS, stealing information from different commands and utilities and then storing it on the affected machine.
A sneaky malware for Linux is backdooring devices to steal data and can affect all the processes running on a particular machine, researchers have found.
The malware, dubbed Orbit, is unlike other Linux threats in that it steals information from different commands and utilities and then stores them in specific files on the machine, researchers from security automation firm Intezer discovered. In fact, the malware’s name comes from one of the filenames it to temporarily store the output of executed commands, they said.
