Threat level is not high, the virus requires users to give it root privileges in order to infect their computers
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Apr 13, 2016 18:10 GMT · By Catalin Cimpanu· After being bombarded with new malware towards the end of last year, the Linux ecosystem is rocked again by the discovery of a new trojan family, identified by security researchers as Linux.BackDoor.Xudp.
The only detail that matters is that this new threat does not leverage automated scripts, vulnerabilities, or brute-force attacks to infect users and still relies on good ol' user stupidity in order to survive.
The infection scenario is simple, with users downloading malicious packages or applications from the Internet, and then giving them root privileges during the installation.
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