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Linux maintainers were infected for 2 years by SSH-dwelling backdoor with huge reach

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Enlarge (credit: BeeBright / Getty Images / iStockphoto ) Infrastructure used to maintain and distribute the Linux operating system kernel was infected for two years, starting in 2009, by sophisticated malware that managed to get a hold of one of the developers’ most closely guarded resources: the /etc/shadow files that stored …