Re: Linux gets its own nasty Bitcoin malware
"How exactly does the Linux malware get onto the Linux system in the first place, without the user downloading and running the malware and providing the root password?"
Sadly many installers these days consist of something like this:
# curl https://bit.ly/script.sh | /bin/bash
Not everyone downloads the script first and analyses it before running it. To be fair it is no more dangerous than installing *anything* off say Tucows on a Windows box.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
