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Never-before-seen Linux malware gets installed using 1-day exploits
(arstechnica.com)
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These vpns seem to be quite a good target since at least the one my university uses is run as a setuid executable, so if there is a vulnerability in there, you can execute code as root that wasn't intended to be executed as root.