153 LINUX SERVERS INFECTED WITH RANSOMWARE

>>60995257
>All of these were allegedly developed from an open-source code project that was available as part of an educational campaign.
Open Source was a mistake.

>>60995257

kys clueless pajeet

>run 10 YEAR OLD version of linux
>OMG WHY WE GOT HACKED???!
Those exploits were all patched many fucking years ago.
The difference on windows is you don't get the patch unless you pay for the current version of the OS.

>>60995390
Yeah if you ignore the fact that they patched ms17-010 on Windows XP
That doesn't count though, right?

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i-is the penguin alright?

>IT'S OGRE!
153 Linux machines infected, compared to the 300,000+ infected by WannaCry? Wow, it's fucking nothing.

>>60995257
What happened to that penguin?

>>60995257
Antivirus companies have always been in the business of scare tactics.
Since only windows systems require antivirus, they could never get linux customers, but now they're doubling down on the "LINUX IS INSECURE" meme so they can start selling antivirus suites.
It's the 1990s all over again.

BUT LINUX DOESN'T GET VIRUSES WAAAAAH

>>60995455
nerve gas

>>60995456
This
It also applies to the sudden surge of ransomware attacks
People had stopped using traditional anti virus and used the latest suite of Common Sense™

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>>60995434
Percentage wise it's about the same.

> Linux-Kernel 2.6.24.2
> 2017

>>60995390
>run latest version
>be crippled with instability issues

>run stable version
>catch malware and get hacked

Linux is such a great deal!

>>60995390
>AAAAA WANNACRY FUCK WINDOWS LEL
>yes but you see in this situation linux shouldn't get any of the blame because they are old versions and ignore any updates/patches windows has made even on old systems they were just doing it to save face
:thinks:

>>60995434
There aren't as many Linux machines out there to infect as there are Windows ones.

>>60995534
You get what you pay for.

>>60995456

Isn't capitalism just great?

>>60995257
Not a problem with Linux itself. Those stupid fucks were using the 2.6.24 kernel and a 10 year old version of apache. If you don't patch your fucking servers, you deserve it.

>>60995574
This guy gets it.

>>60995534
my man, there might be some middle ground between muh bleeding edge archlinux and a Kernel released in 2008

>>60995456
So why do you think scare tactics are so common on /g/, riddle me that. In addition, why do you think people only call out 'scare tactics' in threads about linux but not any concerning windows or any other OS?
I wonder...

>>60995689
Because windows really does require an antivirus.
It's fundamentally broken on an architectual level.
For a long fucking time, GUI code ran INSIDE THE KERNEL, there was zero separation of concerns.

I want /v/ to leave

>>60995707
>Because windows really does require an antivirus.
Which is literally has baked in since ~8. But yeah let's keep pretending it's still 2004

>>60995457
Ransomware isn't a "virus" per se. All it needs is arbitrary code execution privileges, which can be attained on any system which is in contact with humans.

>>60995516
Not in terms of servers it isn't.

>>60995555
Microsoft didn't make patches readily available for old systems until AFTER Wannacry was in the news. And Linux updates don't require a drastic change to the UI just to get the latest security and stability updates.

>>60995534
>the last stable kernel came out in 2004

>use 13 year old kernel
>get rekt
>waaaa linus sucks

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>>60995257
>open-source code project
>part of an educational campaign
confirmed for nobody reads the source
open source the new threat

>>60995720
It's a known fact that Microsoft is at worst after your personal information, and at best is indifferent to the desires of its users. There's no reason to think that Windows is on the side of the user.

>>60995593
you wouldn't be posting here without capitalism you fucking cuckold

>>60995728
Improvements to open-source code only benefit you if you use builds made AFTER the source was improved. This is a vulnerability in kernel 2.6. It's no more of a surprise than if somebody finds a major vulnerability in Windows Vista this year.

>>60995784
>fucking cuckold
>>>/pol/

>>60995802
nice try deflecting away from your ignorance

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>>60995787
>use builds made AFTER the source was improved
windows forced updates and telemetry confirmed for masterrace, not botnet

>>60995257
>There is a common belief that Linux servers are more secure and less vulnerable than Windows servers.
But now, agter having THAT much of affected systems (about 150 worldwide), this myth is totally busted.

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>>60995784

You wouldn't be posting here without socialism, you fucking corporate shill.

If it wasn't for organized labor and unions, you'd still be at the sweatshop floor working for the 14th hour straight, alongside your wife and kids, just to earn a famine wage.

Read a history book anytime so you may start composing posts based on facts instead of ideology, you useful idiot.

>>60995975
>worldwide
That's Worst Korea only, lad.

>Linux users can't read
I'm shocked.

>>60995975

It's not like there's a lot of Linux systems running worldwide to begin with.

>>60995722

>use recent kernel
>too unstable for mission critical

Wow, it's almost as if Linux was just a niche OS made by amateur students. Who would've thought?

>>60996020
that's not because of socialism, that's just putting regulations on capitalism.

>>60996020
fucking lol, you don't even know what socialism is

>>60996157
Socialist parties pushed for it you fucking moron.

>>60996171
Said the moron who attributes technological progress to capitalism.

>>60996157
Yea, these regulations are due to socialism.

Before that, employers might very well call on the army and police to *make* you work, no matter what grievance you might have had, and be it that people are dieing every day in terrible working conditions.

>>60996214
>attributes technological progress to capitalism.
yes, because without incentive there is less motivation for progress. i'm sorry you're having trouble understanding basic concepts anon

>>60996254
Your "basic reasoning" is simply anti-empirical, and it's easy to show:

1- There has always been technological progress, even before capitalism.

2- Most contemporary technological progress isn't done in corporate environments, but academic ones.

Fuck off already, /g/ is a socialist board.

>>60996254

Are you unironically defending software patents?

ON FUCKING /g/?!??

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>>60996254
>he does it for free

>>60996254
Socialism isn't against incentives.

Not even the more extreme communism is (though the incentive there is usually the stick).

Typical social democrats are for a capitalist system but with heavy limitations. Can't work people to death, can't make slavery-like contracts, ridiculously unfair distribution of the spoils of work are supposed to be impossible, and employees generally do have some say - not just employers.

Even then, both employees and employers have obligations.

>>60996254
>defend incentives
>defend a system where the people who do all the productive work barely receive any incentive and where the lazy scum who just exploit the surplus value receive all of it
Contradictory, to say the least.

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guys this is not /pol/ :(
we're here to discuss technology not political systems

>>60995257
is he okay?

>>60996371
No one here's discussing politics, anon.
We're discussing economics.

>>60995534
I am currently updating my stable Gentoo, which includes a kernel update to stable 4.11.6. I currently use stable 4.11.1, which I updated to not too long ago. As you can conclude by this, the latest stable kernel is very recent and will most likely not be affected by such malware. Stable does not mean Debian-level time travelling.

>>60996276
>Fuck off already, /g/ is a socialist board.
still struggling i see. basic tenant of 4chan is that it is not made up of one person, ideology, or way of thinking
>>60996321
>Socialism isn't against incentives.
it inherently is. you can argue it's not the intention to do so all you want but that is the end result. collectivism and egalitarianism goes against the human nature which is selfishness and greed
>>60996347
corporatism is not capitalism

>>60996157
>>60996171
The people that fought for your rights and kept us from being serfs were Marxists and hardcore leftists. They were also the ones stopping sjws from spreading their cancer to the rest of society.

>>60995257
did he died?

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>>60996448
>tenant

>>60996430
Debian stable comes with 4.9.30

>>60996536
nice catch

>>60996276
>there was technological progress before people privately owned property

No, there wasn't.

>>60996579
thx correcting simple mistakes is a tenet of mine

>>60996448
>corporatism is not capitalism
Sure it is. All capitalism leads to "corporatism" in the end because of the way free markets function.

>>60996625
no, capitalism leads to corporatism because of the lack of a free market

o no
rip my servers

>>60996541
and it will keep on doing so for the next two years

It just shows we have even better reasons to do good backups now.

>>60996448
> "Lel, if our (so specially skilled) leaders don't get ALL the money and power, who will even bother to lead us?"
> "Lel, if you don't allow extreme inequality at over 9000%, soon nobody with bother to do a good job."
There is nothing inherent in this. Just the same old myths that herald from slavery and aristocracy.

>>60996975
I never even made those arguments, you're strawmanning

>>60995534
If you use a respectable distro then security patches are generally backported to the stable branches.

BSD is the new Linux

>>60997054
You said there is something inherent against incentives in socialism.

I assume by vehemently calling this a "strawman", you agree that there is nothing "inherently against incentives" when you DO share a certain degree of the decision making power & restrict how bad working conditions or how low or uneven salaries can be?

We basically covered most of the typical social democrat positions, though. It's always somewhat about sharing of power, wealth, and having responsibility for each other rather than it all going almost entirely in just one direction.

>>60995836
What ignorance? Go back to your containment board.

>>60995879
No, it's still botnet because it's actually illegal to know precisely what the updates do. Linux doesn't have that problem. And besides, adding telemetry doesn't count as an "improvement".

>>60996398
Economics is closer to politics than technology.

>>60996600
Capitalism is literally only a few hundred centuries old. Before that there was mercantilism, and before that there was feudalism. And you'd have to be crazy to insist technology only began around 1700. Are guns, swords, bridges, ships, and books not technology? Because they all had their beginnings before capitalism.

>Kernel version 2.6.x

NEWSLFASH, COMPANY RUNNING WINDOWS XP IN 2017 LOSES BILLIONS BECAUSE MALWARE.

>>60997396
it's a strawman because those are not my arguments, I never even brought them up. My arguments are that egalitarianism and collectivism are against human nature and therefore socialism, which is founded around these principles, is also against human nature.

You bring up decision making power but I don't think people should be able to make decisions or policy, or vote on them. I don't think you should be able to restrict the market or regulate it, and I don't think you should be able to decide what is low or uneven. By trying to enforce an artificial limitation on the free market you are either 1) doing it for the collective good, aka collectivist, and/or 2) you are doing it for the sake of equality, which is what I meant by egalitarianism

>>60995556
This is just false.

Android + server space overcomes the Desktop numbers easily.

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/pol/eddit sure is leaking

>>60995257

>literally don't patch for 12 years
>get hacked

>>60996276
1. Yes, but capitalism undeniably accelerated this technical progress.

2. [citation needed]

You don't own the output of someone else's labor because "muh feelings." Socialism is slavery.

>>60997962
>socialism is slavery! said the slave with stockholm syndrome

>>60998034
why do you think capitalism is slavery?

>>60998034
Taking from someone is theft, forcing them to work is slavery.

Did anon sleep through the 4th grade again?

>>60998096
>dey takin muh monies! said the wigger frying burgers for 8 McDollars an hour

>>60998163
So you can steal from someone because they don't have a lot, or...?

This is a new low, even for a socialist.

>>60998185
>oh i know i'll tell him dey stealing from me fo being ratpoor instead of admitting it's dem big capitials1!!! fuk u commie
how much do you weigh son? stop eating those cheeseburgers you're gonna have a heart attack

>>60995687
Are you suggesting something like a latest stable release even exists?

>>60997887
So you're resorting to an absurd mode of argumentation where you just broadly redefine socialism away from the actually commonly held positions / demands.
And you even propose some unproven but universal truth about human nature that somehow must clearly contradict all of socialism because <speak two words, overgeneralize, claim it's truly representative of socialism> - but really, most socialism isn't even collectivist, and most positions don't demand equality in wealth - only sane proportions in sharing products of work.

> but I don't think people should be able to make decisions or policy
You want to yield all your decision making power to me, or what?

> I don't think you should be able to restrict the market or regulate it
I guess I should own all land you could possibly stand on and all food and water you could eat. Maybe add in a patent on your DNA.

Just to really drive it home how much I can coerce you.

> 1) doing it for the collective good, aka collectivist, and/or 2) you are doing it for the sake of equality
No, it's for the individual good to have a share in power and wealth on your own.

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>>60995534
>instability issues
I know you're baiting, but still

>>60998285
>anon goes to get a job
>willingly signs an employment contract
>freely sets the price of his labor
>claims he was robbed
>GIBS ME DAT!

If capitalism benefits you, then you are a retard if you oppose it. If capitalism hurts you, then you a retard that can't contribute anything of value to society. Anon, I'm afraid you might be retarded.

Actually worker benefits such as paid leave, medical coverage, educational leave, vacations, limited working hours, etc. were first put into place at Carl Zeiss long before labor unionism existed.

It was determined that a more stable, happy, and highly-skilled base of employees led to a more profitable company.

Labor unionists, socialists, and commies all like to take credit for something which was produced by capitalism yet again.

>>60998400
>the price of his labor already set on print on the contract before being signed is freedom
pajeets taking your job via unlawful competition and corporatelobbying is also freedom i bet lel

>>60998498
>all capitalism must bre completely regulation free or it's socialism!
this is how retarded you sound

>>60998388
>only sane proportions in sharing products of work
it can be little or a lot of it, it doesn't matter. the issue is that corruptibility is a feature of people and government, and when you have a central government it allows for it to be corrupted. You can't have a "sane" amount of socialism, because it will inevitably corrupt. the solution is like bitcoin: to decentralize it and take out the human element.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTYkdEU_B4o

>>60998510
but that's what you're saying mong
you can't even keep track of your own bullshit lel

>>60998498
You're free not to sign the contract.

>pajeets taking your job via unlawful competition
I try to get ahead by being better than the competition, that way I improve myself and my workplace. The socialist appears to prefer to name-call in times of hardship, rather than put in extra work to make themselves a better individual.

>>60998490
> Carl Zeiss: 1846
> Trade / Labour unions: pre 1800
> Limited working hours, work safety, holidays etc: Often practiced *somewhere* or in whole nations even in antiquity
> Anchoring these things into most nation's modern laws: Socialist achievement.

>>60998578
>he thinks he can outcompete corporate lobbying and ten times cheaper wages by "improving himself"
>he's a corporate cuck who doesn't even defend his own rights

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>>60997913
>project chanology was 8 years ago

>>60995523
>>60995534

I use this as a sanity test. "If I was running the oldest supported Ubuntu LTS would I have been hit".

14.04.5. Even without HWE that would put it at Kernel 3.13. So the issue is nothing.

>>60995455
Most likely a bird of prey tried to kill it but didn't manage to.

>>60996393
Looks like mostly a flesh wound, so if it doesn't get infected I think it could live.

>>60998611
>ten times cheaper wages
This would be impossible.

Stop projecting your insecurities, anon. Just because your career is apparently valueless does not mean the rest of us are in that situation.

You should try to perfect your skills until you are in a similar situation, rather than try to drag everyone down to your level of worthlessness. People will like you more, you'll get paid more, you'll be happier, and you'll actually succeed in making the world a better place.

>>60995257

What distro were they using?

>>60995257
>There is a common belief that Linux servers are more secure and less vulnerable than Windows servers.
There's no perfect security and there's too much factors to take in account. The fact linux servers has been breached doesn't prove by itself that linux is less or just equally as secure as windows but it certainly proves that is a juicy target that is targeted too and the fact that this kind of cases are rare is already impressive considering how extended is it on servers.

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>>60995257
>No information about what OS or version was being used.
>No information about the circumstances on how the machines were infected.
>Doesn't even specify if the infection was done taking advantage of a vulnerability of the kernel or if it was another component.
Well, OP, i guess you proved what you wanted to prove, that there's malware targeting linux, an OS with a very high marketshare on servers and other areas. Thanks captain obvious.

>>60998937
*correction to myself, linux is not an OS, it's just a common internal component that different entities and individuals use for any purpose thanks to it being available under a permissive license and because it's development is open to anyone. Fuck my shitty brain.

>>60998536
> You can't have a "sane" amount of socialism, because it will inevitably corrupt
Are you waiting for all countries with social democrats / democratic socialist major parties to fail any time now or what?

> decentralize it and take out the human element
I can't watch the whole video now, but a few minutes in and I know that this is the medieval ages and antiquity where I better make sure I have skills and a military and assassins to conspire, plunder and conquer the shit out of everyone.

> Video: Constant conflict won't happen because it is expensive
Complete history (including today) fail. Also game theory fail.

>>60998987
>a few minutes in and I know that this is the medieval ages and antiquity where I better make sure I have skills and a military and assassins to conspire, plunder and conquer the shit out of everyone.
lol, no.

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>>60995257
will loonix ever recover

>>60999108
Yes. You don't only hire and equip 10 armed guys to protect yourself from the other 10 armed guys. You actually send them rob and take over the people with 5 armed guys if it seems more lucrative than collecting their protection money.

And in case of disputes, you don't hire a good honest judge. No, you try to bribe the pope or the emperor or whoever else might have more power than you. It's one way for them to "morally" collect money & its the way for you to win.

And -back on topic- if you get afflicted by cryptographic malware, these are the only people who might even be able to investigate into other people's domains. Nobody will let you do it - what's their benefit, after all?
And what will they do if you claim you've found them to be the malware authors and the Emperor or Pope gets actually worried about THEIR porn collection?

>>60996448
>corporatism is not capitalism

>"I-it wasn't REAL capitalism, anon!"

It's gonna be fun when you reject the argument that your faux examples of socialism aren't real socialism, but ok.

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>>60995257
>kernel version 2
It's literally fucking nothing. Maybe these faggots will learn to update to the newest stable release.

>>60996276
>Fuck off already, /g/ is a socialist board.
t. desperate leftypol shill.
Stop, it's embarrassing.

>>60996600
>capitalism = privately owned property
Wow, you're dumb.

Even in full-blown communism there is private property. There is even capital.

The difference between capitalism and socialism is a focus on the money or on the human being.

On capitalism, money is the wealth generator. On socialism, it's labour.

Capitalism goes against logic. It's a lack of understanding of a basic fact: money can't procreate. If you put two coins together, they won't reproduce. But that's the logic behind the entire system.

Capitalism isn't about "free markets" either. That's a fallacy. You can have free markets in socialist economies. Some of the top countries on the Liberty index are socialist.

I recommend you watch the following videos in order to inform yourself and stop spouting uninformed opinions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5bMCdZR3IQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuMntvVwwWM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1PtStipIsc

Also read:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/01/economism-and-the-minimum-wage/513155/

http://www.businessinsider.com/minimum-wage-effect-on-jobs-2016-5

>>60996600
>defend privately owned property
>defend a system where the workers aren't owners of the means of production
Contradiction after contradiction...

>>60995555
checked

>>60995298
Good goy

>>60996095
Or you could not be stupid and use LTS kernels.

>>60995257
This is fucking gore in a safe for work board. I don't know how mods accepted it.

How will small Lindicked white bois ever recover?

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>>60995516
>I can't into 5th grade math the post

>>60995534
>stable
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
Even Debian 7 don't use that kernel.

>>60995755
>known fact
nigger detected

>>60996020
Why are there so many communist faggots on /g/? Is it because of that kike Stallman?

>Run 11 year old software
>it gets malwared

WOW LINUX IS BROKEN

>when I see some socialist kike stirring up shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZBpr2Dt1pk

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Give me a quick rundown on /g/'s favoruite linux distro.

>>61003508
There aren't. They're leftypol shills.
They've been hitting /g/ especially hard as it seems in their retardation they think that a preference for FOSS leads to left-wing beliefs.

The article says the Linux servers were serving the ransomware, not that they were being held ransom by it. It even says "Erebus attacks designated targets, using a User Account Control (UAC) bypass that allows the ransomware to run at elevated privileges without displaying a UAC prompt." UAC is a Windows thing.

Daily reminder you're safe from WannaCry if you run Windows 2000.

It simply won't execute.

>>60995534
DELETE

>>61004880
arch has a painful setup but no breakage like the memes would have you believe and much less of the compilation bullshit of gentoo

>>60995426
Its head is fucking falling off, I don't think it's okay dude.

>>60995416
You are correct. It doesn't.

>>61005137
But why is it always associated with a fat
neckbeard in a background with triangle, then?

>>60995416
>patched
there you go.