Saturday, September 27, 2014

Hackers Using 'Shellshock' Bash Vulnerability to Launch Botnet Attacks

Researchers on Thursday discovered a critical remotely exploitable vulnerability in the widely used command-line shell GNU Bourne Again Shell (Bash), dubbed "Shellshock" which affects most of the Linux distributions and servers worldwide, and may already have been exploited in the wild to take over Web servers as part of a botnet that is currently trying to infect other servers as well.





from The Hacker News http://bit.ly/1t3UgAx

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