Linux virus named "Evil GNOME!"

[mmikeinsantarosa]

I was looking for something totally unrelated on youtube and one of them side panels had a video about the worst linux virus ever called EvilGnome.
Here's an article and the aforementioned video. I haven't had a gnome desktop since 2013 but I've always considered my MX pretty safe.

Security researchers have discovered a rare piece of Linux spyware that's currently fully undetected across all major antivirus security software products, and includes rarely seen functionalities with regards to most Linux malware, The Hacker News learned.

Dubbed EvilGnome, the malware has been designed to take desktop screenshots, steal files, capture audio recording from the user's microphone as well as download and execute further second-stage malicious modules.

Anybody else seen this?

- mike

[dreamer]

Pretty remarkable. A good video btw.

Best comment:

Evil Gnome spies on you, listens to your conversations over your microphone and installs a keylogger. So it turns Gnome into Windows 10?

There is no need for a question mark at the end because all these things are confirmed by Windows privacy policy. As a long time Windows user I only rarely boot into it. It's a shame what Microsoft has done. It's like seeing a long time friend getting sick and slowly dying. Expect more Linux users. And more Linux malware.

[handy]

Red Hat's NSA dev's are probably behind it!

[JayM]

Red Hat's NSA dev's are probably behind it!

No need to spread false rumors when the original article (that Hacker News summarized in their article) makes it pretty clear that a Russian hacking group is probably behind it. They're probably state-sponsored as well.

[megatotoro]

Apparently, you need to use the Gnome DE and then go out of your way to download the virus and install it. The comments were pretty funny.

[masterpeace]

Long-Live XFCE

[jackdanielsesq]

Amen ...

MSFT has done absolutely squat since XP - Gates should be ashamed of himself, what he has [not] done
In fact, all the big tech co's are a total disgrace - chasing the same elusive data/blackmail unicorn

Rock-on KDE ....

Jack

Pretty remarkable. A good video btw.

Best comment:

Evil Gnome spies on you, listens to your conversations over your microphone and installs a keylogger. So it turns Gnome into Windows 10?

........ As a long time Windows user I only rarely boot into it. It's a shame what Microsoft has done. It's like seeing a long time friend getting sick and slowly dying. Expect more Linux users. And more Linux malware.

[handy]

Red Hat's NSA dev's are probably behind it!

No need to spread false rumors when the original article (that Hacker News summarized in their article) makes it pretty clear that a Russian hacking group is probably behind it. They're probably state-sponsored as well.

The Russian group are just a front for the Chinese, who are in fact covering for the North Korean's... (who they fund)

[manyroads]

Red Hat's NSA dev's are probably behind it!

No need to spread false rumors when the original article (that Hacker News summarized in their article) makes it pretty clear that a Russian hacking group is probably behind it. They're probably state-sponsored as well.

The Russian group are just a front for the Chinese, who are in fact covering for the North Korean's... (who they fund)

[humor?] Whatever happened to "Spectre"??? [/humor?]

[JayM]

Red Hat's NSA dev's are probably behind it!

No need to spread false rumors when the original article (that Hacker News summarized in their article) makes it pretty clear that a Russian hacking group is probably behind it. They're probably state-sponsored as well.

The Russian group are just a front for the Chinese, who are in fact covering for the North Korean's... (who they fund)

Who are in turn working for the MIB (Men In Black.) Why yes, I've been rewatching some old movies lately.