Linux vendor Red Hat Inc. is warning customers about an e-mail hoax that urges them to download security patches that actually contain malicious payloads.
In a note to customers on its Web site, Red Hat said it "has been made aware that e-mails are circulating that pretend to come from the Red Hat Security Team. These e-mails tell users to download and install malicious updates. These Trojan updates contain malicious code designed to compromise the systems they are run on."
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Posted by Muddy at October 25, 2004 12:42 PM | TrackBackhmmm.. maybe I don't want linux to be the #1 OS after all... then the haXorz will pay more attention to us. :-P
Posted by: muddy at October 25, 2004 12:50 PM