Backdoor Kobalos targets supercomputers
As reported by ESET, supercomputers around the world are threatened by the Kobalos backdoor. Remote access gives cybercriminals unimagined opportunities. With their enormous computing power, supercomputers shouldn't get into the hands of criminals - the consequences would be fatal. But that's exactly what happened after discoveries by ESET researchers. Strangers use the Kobalos backdoor to successfully attack so-called performance computer (HPC) clusters and gain extensive access. The victims include a large Asian ISP, a North American endpoint security provider, and several corporate and government servers. Attack against Linux, BSD and Solaris Kobalos was launched for Linux, BSD and Solaris ...