Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs

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Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs
pcmag.com

Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of 'StripedFly' malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that's been targeting PCs for more than five years.

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Maybe if root is shared via SMB1 and is rw

Not possible AFAIK, I don't use anything Microsoft, but AFAIK SMB1 shares on Linux are through Samba, and you can't just enable write permissions without root. So as I stated before, the Linux system needs to be already compromised.

Users can configure the system however they want.