ESET Uncovered A Backdoor Trojan That Hijacked 2500 Plus UNIX Servers

After a recent survey, ESET, the global leader in proactive digital security protection, has announced that its security research team, in collaboration with CERT-Bund, has uncovered a wildly spread malware involving a backdoor Trojan, which has managed to hijack and seize control of over 2500 UNIX servers worldwide. They named the Trojan "Windigo". 

Pierre-Marc Bureau, Security program manager of ESET said ”Windigo has been gathering strength, largely unnoticed by the security community, for more than two and half years and has over 10000 servers under its control. This number is significant if you consider each of these systems have access to significant bandwidth, storage, computing power and memory.” 

The attack Windigo, actually hijacks servers and then infect the computers that visit them and steals information from their system. The infected servers are then used for redirecting thousands of web visitors to malicious content on a daily basis. 

ESET researchers are warning and advising webmasters and system administrators to check their system because, more than 60 percent of websites in the world are running on Linux Servers. So there are chances that they get infected. According to reports, servers located across the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France are amongst the infected ones. The published report explains the team’s finding on investigation and malware analysis. The report also offered necessary steps to determine: if the systems are affected by the malware, and instruct to remove the malicious code. 

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