Contrary to popular disclaimers, Linix/Unix can be infected with malware, and sadly it happens all the time. In this case and per the article posted, it appears an attacker likely brute-forced one of your account passwords and gained access. After that, they installed malicious scripts that turn your host into a DDOS bot.
Jeremiah Bess On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 8:55 AM Mohammad Abdullah <mdabdul...@mdabdullah.in> wrote: > On Wed, 20 May, 2020, 6:52 PM T S, <tomasz.sadle...@sportbase.pl> wrote: > >> I am afraid that is not your biggest problem. >> >> take a look at >> https://intezer.com/blog/research/kaiji-new-chinese-linux-malware-turning-to-golang/ >> >> all those processes from your ps shows that your server was infected. >> > > Please elaborate, how a linux server can be infected. > > Abdullah > >> -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri > Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Linux Users Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/linuxusersgroup/CAE0Xz4ARFaHRL4bX3DmCxO%3D%2B%3DXsb_0s%2B0rHRObCD2o1om7oE4Q%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/linuxusersgroup/CAE0Xz4ARFaHRL4bX3DmCxO%3D%2B%3DXsb_0s%2B0rHRObCD2o1om7oE4Q%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to linuxusersgroup@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe, send email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup References can be found at: http://goo.gl/anqri Please remember to abide by our list rules (http://tinyurl.com/LUG-Rules) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux Users Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to linuxusersgroup+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/linuxusersgroup/CAN%2BraevNhCaNbCMsw6wHaMQAxLrR%3DubmwuLGufqS8G5ne4zWJg%40mail.gmail.com.
