0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agoKaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threatswww.bleepingcomputer.comexternal-linkmessage-square50linkfedilinkarrow-up173arrow-down148
arrow-up125arrow-down1external-linkKaspersky releases free tool that scans Linux for known threatswww.bleepingcomputer.com0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square50linkfedilink
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year 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-up2·1 year agoThe xz backdoor was a packaged file distributed with the standard packages though. It would be trivial to find.
minus-squareboredsquirrel@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year 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”
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”