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[–] DrinkBoba@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Knusper@feddit.de 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wasn't sure about it either. There's security researchers out there who might genuinely want to get a virus to run in a VM.

But yeah, the cmalw-lib-2.0 gives it away...

[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, nobody uses cmalw-lib-2.0

Its deprecated, now we use hack-lib-client-1.17

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

systemd-malwared and its front-end malctl are how the cool kids are doing it.

[–] chocobo13z@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not too long ago, when Fracturiser was a concern on Minecraft, and I read up on it, I got a chuckle when I read that stage 2 was a systemd service, and therefore couldn't have run on my machine even if it had gotten that far (of course, I still checked for signs of infection)

[–] BloodSlut@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

systemd haters will moan and groan about 'bloat' and 'unnecessary end-user hacking libraries' smh

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wasn’t sure about it either

It ends with them donating money to the malware's creator...

[–] Knusper@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, that is odd, but not impossible either. I've seen influencers do dumb shit like that for the attention.