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Ebury is a sophisticated piece of malware designed to compromise Linux-based systems, particularly servers.
Ebury’s developers are financially motivated, in newer times expanding into the cryptocurrency space, as well.
Ebury also seems to be used for spam and web traffic redirection.
However, that didnt stop the malware from being updated and growing in the years since.
Cumulatively, since 2009, some 400,000 Linux-powered servers have been infected by this backdoor.
Key Ebury victims seem to be hosting providers, the researchers found.
As part of an experiment, they rented a virtual server and suffered an infection within a week.
Last year, more than 200 servers were targeted by Ebury operators.
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