Security researchers have discovered an unusually evasive Linux backdoor, undetected even by VirusTotal, compromising systems as a malicious pluggable authentication module (PAM). Dubbed “Plague” by ...

A newly discovered Linux malware, which has evaded detection for over a year, allows attackers to gain persistent SSH access and bypass authentication on compromised systems. Nextron Systems security ...

Nextron researcher Pierre-Henri Pezier says the company named the malware "Plague" as its deobfuscated code contains the text "Uh. Mr. The Plague, sir? I think we have a hacker" - a line from the 1995 ...