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Re:Linux ransomware in the wild by ryanlol on Saturday October 21, 2017 @12:31PM (#15522389)
>TL;DR: The user ran firefox as root and the attack happened through adobe-flash. Hardly a sophisticated attack.

While possible, this sounds so spectacularly unlikely that I can’t help but think that you’re just speculating.

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Re:Linux ransomware in the wild by Filligree on Saturday October 21, 2017 @01:18PM (#15522580)
The article itself mentions running Firefox as root, but there's no way the user can be sure that's the infection vector.
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