Rust-based alternatives to traditional Unix shells continue to attract users who want bash compatibility alongside built-in features like syntax highlighting and history-based suggestions. Brush, a bash- and POSIX-compatible shell written in Rust, sits in that group, and version 0.4.0 brings more than 200 merged pull requests representing several months of development. Bash features filled in…
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GSocket Backdoor Delivered Through Bash Script, (Fri, Mar 20th)
Yesterday, I discovered a malicious Bash script that installs a GSocket backdoor on the victim’s computer. I don’t know the source of the script not how it is delivered to the victim. GSocket[1] is a networking tool, but also a relay infrastructure, that enables direct, peer-to-peer–style communication between systems using a shared secret instead of…