Linux users targeted by password-stealing 'Wirenet' Trojan

03.09.2012

Malware specifically designed to steal credentials from Linux systems is almost unheard of but might, on the basis of this new discovery, become a little less so in future.

"We do not have explicit evidence that it uses Java. To my knowledge it does not. This file was received from Virustotal," Dr Web analyst Igor Zdobnov told Techworld.