Pumakit
New stealthy Pumakit Linux rootkit malware spotted in the wild
A new Linux rootkit malware called Pumakit has been discovered that uses stealth and advanced privilege escalation techniques to hide its presence on systems. The malware is a multi-component set that includes a dropper, memory-resident executables, a kernel module rootkit, and a shared object (SO) userland rootkit. Elastic Security discovered Pumakit in a suspicious binary (‘cron’) upload […]
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