Linux worm turns on Mambo and PHP
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Hey Mambo and PHP users, you might want to make yourself aware of the security alert going around with regard to a nasty Linux worm working its way through certain systems.
Security experts today warned of a Linux network worm that exploits holes in the Mambo content management system and the PHP XML-RPC library.
Dubbed Mare.D, the worm leaves multiple backdoors on infected systems. Two of these are connectback shell backdoors that link to a remote host, while a third allows the malware’s writer to access and control infected systems via IRC. [Read the rest]
Tags: php, linux worm, mambo, security alert
