Millions of systems shut down by dumb microsoft os.
This story reeks of FUD.
exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets,
Because a “common misconfiguration” will absolutely make your system vulnerable!?!
OK show just ONE!
This is FUD to either prevent people from using Linux, or simply a hoax to get attention, or maybe to make you think you need additional security software.
Unfortunately they are already in the market and making a mess: https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/21/crowdstrike_linux_crashes_restoration_tools/
Thousands!? Shit. That’s like all of them!
Can’t be infected if I keep wiping my partition for a new shiny distro
Your install USB is infected by a rookit and reinstalls itself on connect.
Sounds like it should at least be noticeable if you monitor resource usage?
That’s how some people found it, but it would disappear when someone would login to investigate.
Yes, but they replace common tools like top or lsof with manipulated versions. This might at least trick less experienced sysadmins.
Edit: Some found out about the vulnerability by ressource alerts. Probably very easy in a virtualized environment. The malware can’t fool the hypervisor ;)
