New Reptile Rootkit Malware Attacking Linux Systems Using Port Knocking
released on 2023-07-25 @ 01:22:46 PM
Reptile is a kernel module rootkit for Linux systems released as open source on GitHub. A rootkit is a malicious code that has the ability to hide itself or other malicious codes, and its targets are mainly files, processes, and network communication. The hiding functions supported by Reptile include files and directories, contents of files, processes, and network traffic in addition to the kernel module itself.