Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.
Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.
.bashrc and .profile can be modified without root, as can autostarting .desktop files. I think systemd and anything in /etc require root though.
Also a lot of users set
sudoto not require a password (I am guilty of this) which makes privilege escalation easy.