Linux botnet of zombie web servers

Hijacked Linux servers are apparently distributing malicious software to Windows PCs, says Heise Online . Quoting analysis by web developer Denis Sinegubko, “the comprised systems all have one thing in common,” says the post. The lightweight web server nginx is, “running and serving content through port 8080″.

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