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A new piece of malware is making headlines for an unusual reason — it's cleaning up. Security researchers at SentinelLabs have identified a worm they're calling PCPJack, which hunts down and removes existing infections from exposed cloud instances, only to install itself in their place. It's a hostile takeover, not a rescue mission.
Meanwhile, a federal jury in Virginia has convicted Sohaib Akhter in connection with the deliberate destruction of roughly ninety-six government databases. The alleged scheme unfolded just two weeks before Akhter and his twin brother were fired from their positions at a US government software contractor. Both men now face the possibility of decades behind bars.
And on the security front, a newly disclosed Linux vulnerability is drawing serious concern. Dubbed Dirty Frag, the flaw reportedly allows an attacker to gain root access across all major Linux distributions — and right now, there is no patch available. A researcher shared findings with distro maintainers, but details leaked before a fix could be built and distributed, leaving systems exposed.
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