[vcf-midatlantic] OT: Rasperry Pi Linux Malware

[Christopher Gioconda]

Quite a few, according to the article, because up until late last year, ssh
was enabled by default (granted most routers don't have that port open
typically) :

However, it warned that there could still be millions of Raspberry Pi
boards that haven't been updated. Some 12.5 million of the single-board
computers have been sold over
<https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/raspberry-pi-sales/> the past five
years, according to the official Raspberry Pi Magazine.

Chris

On Jun 9, 2017 9:28 PM, "Jim Scheef via vcf-midatlantic" <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:

Kind of clever when you think about it. However, how many RPi's with open
SSH permanently connected to the Internet could there possibly be?
Jim


On Thu, 8 Jun 2017, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2017 16:34:50 -0400
> From: Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic
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> Cc: Tony Bogan <thebogans at mac.com>
> Subject: [vcf-midatlantic] OT: Rasperry Pi Linux Malware
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> http://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-malware-enslaves-raspberr
> y-pi-to-mine-cryptocurrency/
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