{"id":39413,"date":"2021-02-03T12:30:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T12:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/tiny-kobalos-malware-seen-backdooring-ssh-tools-menacing-supercomputers-an-isp-and-more-eset\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T12:30:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T12:30:05","slug":"tiny-kobalos-malware-seen-backdooring-ssh-tools-menacing-supercomputers-an-isp-and-more-eset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/tiny-kobalos-malware-seen-backdooring-ssh-tools-menacing-supercomputers-an-isp-and-more-eset\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Kobalos malware seen backdooring SSH tools, menacing supercomputers, an ISP, and more \u2013 ESET"},"content":{"rendered":"

ESET researchers say they have found a lightweight strain of malware that targets multiple OSes and has hit supercomputers, an ISP, and other organisations.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed Kobalos, the software nasty is said<\/a> to be portable to Linux, the BSDs, Solaris, and possibly AIX and Windows. ESET researchers Marc-Etienne M.L\u00e9veill\u00e9 and Ignacio Sanmillan appear to have analysed primarily the Linux version of the code. Here’s a summary of the key findings from their research:<\/p>\n