[GreenKeys] OT - Highly stealthy Linux trojan may have infected victims for years...

[tony.podrasky]

I don't know if any of you Linux guys ever run <tcpdump>
to see what kind of traffic is going on on your network.

If you own a Vizio TV or an Android tablet, run <tcpdump>
and watch how much garbage is flying out of those things,
contacting hosts all over the internet.

I'm really cranked-off at Vizio: when I bought the TV it
would come to life in about 15 seconds after hitting the
power button. Then, one day, they downloaded something to
it and it takes close to 2 minutes to come to life.

Since then, I've taken it off the network. If I shut down
the internet and connect the Vizio to my network, it continually
tries to connect to all these weird hosts.

And I won't let the Android connect to the internet because
a bunch of apps got messed-up when it downloaded some kind of
an O/S upgrade.

regards,
tony


On 12/09/2014 06:33 PM, drlegendre . wrote:
> Thank you for passing this along.
>
> As for myself, I wasn't aware of the issues.. lulled into a false sense
> of security, by fifteen years' un-interrupted use of various Linux flavors.
>
> Far as I know, none of my Linux systems have been sick for a day in
> their lives - though that could change at any time, of course. Thanks
> for reminding us.

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