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New GPU-based Linux Rootkit

The world of hacking has become more organized and reliable over recent years and so the techniques of hackers.

Nowadays, attackers use highly sophisticated tactics and often go to extraordinary lengths in order to mount an attack.

And there is something new to the list:

A team of developers has created not one, but two pieces of malware that run on an infected computer’s graphics processor unit (GPU) instead of its central processor unit (CPU), in order to enhance their stealthiness and computational efficiency.

The two pieces of malware:

    Jellyfish Rootkit for Linux operating system
    Demon Keylogger

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New GPU-based Linux Rootkit