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New Syslogk Linux Rootkit Lets Attackers Remotely Command It Using “Magic Packets”

New Syslogk Linux Rootkit Lets Attackers Remotely Command It Using “Magic Packets”

A new covert Linux kernel rootkit named Syslogk has been spotted under development in the wild and cloaking a malicious payload that can be remotely commandeered by an adversary using a magic network traffic packet. "The Syslogk rootkit is heavily based on Adore-Ng but incorporates new functionalities making the user-mode application and the kernel rootkit hard to detect," Avast security