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		saagarjha on Nov 22, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Security researchers identify new malware targetin... They load a kernel driver so your avoidance of LD_PRELOAD wouldn’t really be able to protect against this anyway.

gorgonical on Nov 22, 2024 [–]

Unless I misread they don't state exactly how the attack escalates privileges to install the driver. Could there be two versions of the attack with varying levels of severity?

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