Botnet infects machines via Linux binaries and PHP scripts
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Akamai SIRT (Security Intelligence Research Team) has discovered a new spam botnet in the wild, and according to the company's analysis, the botnet, named Torte, infects machines via ELF Linux binaries and PHP scripts placed on the server's filesystem.
Akamai says the botnet is not the largest they've seen, but it is one of the largest in recent years, accounting for 83,000 infections across 2 of 4 infection layers.
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