<div dir="ltr"><div>A possible program that was used is this one (last comment in the thread). Initially a proof of concept, but now some actors are using it for real.<br><br></div><div>The key is gaining root access. If you prevent that, then you are safe.<br></div><div><br><a href="https://github.com/jdsecurity/CryptoTrooper">https://github.com/jdsecurity/CryptoTrooper</a><br><br></div>Since it has a similar /etc/motd.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:45 AM, Khalid Baheyeldin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com" target="_blank">kb@2bits.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Scrolling down a bit in the comments.<br><br>He used Firefox as root, then probably clicked on a link or ad that had malware in it. That replaced his Python executable with the ransomware thing.<br><br></div>I never ran antivirus on Linux either.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:10 AM, Joe Wennechuk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com" target="_blank">youcanreachmehere@hotmail.com</a><wbr>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<p>I have never run any antivirus or anything on my linux box. Does anyone know how this got into this users machine, and/or how I should be protecting my home, and work environments using Linux?</p>
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