Powerful Malware Disguised as Crypto Miner Infects 1M+ Windows, Linux PCs - eviltoast

Antivirus provider Kaspersky uncovers a sophisticated piece of ‘StripedFly’ malware camouflaged as a cryptocurrency miner that’s been targeting PCs for more than five years.

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    1 year ago

    This depends entirely on the distribution. The distribution I run has no automatic updates by default. I do it manually.

    I could easily set it up if I wanted to, but yeah. There is no consensus, it’s just case-by-case basis. Some do have automatic updates by default.