The Duqu malware that targeted industrial manufacturers around the world may have been spawned by a well-funded team of competent coders , but their command of Linux led to some highly amateur mistakes.
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According to a report published on Wednesday by researchers from Kaspersky Lab, the unknown attackers attempted a global cleanup on a dozen or more hacked Linux servers they used to control systems infected with Duqu. The mass purge on machines running CentOS 5.x came on October 20, two days after researchers publicly compared Duqu to the Stuxnet worm that sabotaged Iran's nuclear program . Speculation is the operators were trying to cover their tracks.Find blog for Nokia phone reviews
In their haste, the attackers appear to have made some critical mistakes. Servers in Vietnam and Germany contained partial logs of the hackers' SSH and bash sessions that remained on the / partition.Find reviews on Nokia phones blog
Duqu attackers: master coders, Linux rookies - Register
