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Koobface is a network worm that attacks Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. [1] [2] [3] This worm originally targeted users of networking websites such as Facebook, Skype, Yahoo Messenger, and email websites such as GMail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail.
macOS malware includes viruses, trojan horses, worms and other types of malware that affect macOS, Apple's current operating system for Macintosh computers. macOS (previously Mac OS X and OS X) is said to rarely suffer malware or virus attacks, [1] and has been considered less vulnerable than Windows. [2]
ClamAV (antivirus) is a free software, cross-platform antimalware toolkit able to detect many types of malware, including viruses.It was developed for Unix and has third party versions available for AIX, BSD, HP-UX, Linux, macOS, OpenVMS, OSF (Tru64), Solaris and Haiku.
Linux malware includes viruses, Trojans, worms and other types of malware that affect the Linux family of operating systems.Linux, Unix and other Unix-like computer operating systems are generally regarded as very well-protected against, but not immune to, computer viruses.
It was first detected in January 2021. [3] The second version contains code that runs natively on Apple's proprietary M1 processor, and was probably released in December 2020 and discovered in February 2021. [4] [3] The virus connects to a server hosted on Amazon Web Services. [5] The software includes a self-destruct mechanism. [1]
In Ubuntu Pit's listing of the Best Linux Antivirus: Top 10 Reviewed and Compared, ClamTk was recommended for average users and described as "lightweight". [7] A 2019 review in Make Tech Easier included ClamTk in its review of The Best Antivirus Programs for Ubuntu. They reported, "If you need a good virus scanner, and you’re not a fan of the ...
In early July 2018 it was reported at least thirteen versions of Mirai malware has been detected actively infecting Linux Internet of things (IoT) in the internet, and three of them were designed to target specific vulnerabilities by using exploit proof of concept, without launching brute-forcing attack to the default credential authentication ...
BASHLITE is written in C, and designed to easily cross-compile to various computer architectures. [9]Exact capabilities differ between variants, but the most common features [9] generate several different types of DDoS attacks: it can hold open TCP connections, send a random string of junk characters to a TCP or a UDP port, or repeatedly send TCP packets with specified flags.