Linux Malware “Drovorub” developed by Russian exposed by NSA and FBI

Re:Linux Malware “Drovorub” developed by Russian exposed by ... by renewiltord on Thursday August 13, 2020 @03:18PM (#24147172)

Can someone explain this? I have DKMS enabled because I use the proprietary nvidia drivers. Also all my drivers are kernel modules. I feel like I'm missing something here, though.

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Re:Linux Malware “Drovorub” developed by Russian exposed by ... by posix_me_less on Saturday August 15, 2020 @04:33PM (#24172144)

If you use proprietary binary code in kernel, it runs with high privileges and can be used to provide remote root access to your system. Don't worry much about it, your computer most probably already runs proprietary binary code with such high privileges before your OS boots.

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