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tedunangst on Dec 9, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Powerful, highly stealthy Linux trojan may have in...

I tried interpreting the ars article (rookie mistake) and assumed it was stealing traffic from other programs running as the same user.

0x0 on Dec 9, 2014 [–]

Aha, now I see why you brought up ptrace.

But they were talking about magic syn packets etc (in the securelist post linked from another comment, I got the sources mixed up)

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