A reported Free Download Manager supply chain attack redirected Linux users to a malicious Debian package repository that installed information-stealing malware.
The malware used in this campaign establishes a reverse shell to a C2 server and installs a Bash stealer that collects user data and account credentials.
Kaspersky discovered the potential supply chain compromise case while investigating suspicious domains, finding that the campaign has been underway for over three years.
How is it possible that users noticed strange behaviors (new Cron jobs) and they didn’t check the script launched by those jobs 😱
Linux popularity going up means the percentage of users who know what cron is goes down.
If they were complaining about cronjobs being created (like the post says), then they must have known what cron is.
Idk if I’d check crontab regularly.