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Old 28th February 2013
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Default Hacker break-in at cPanel saw SSH trojans deployed

From http://h-online.com/-1814039

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Hackers broke into a server at cPanel.net, creators and vendors of the cPanel web hosting control panel for Linux, BSD and Windows servers, and proceeded to install SSH rootkits and compromised OpenSSH packages on customer systems. Once the attack had been discovered, the company initially emailed its customers last week, calling on them to update their administrator passwords.

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The company doesn't comment on the speculation that it had been a victim of SSH-abusing Linux rootkits. It does say though that administrators should check their systems for one of two SSH-abusing rootkits. One, as reported, involves a trojanised libkeyutils, while another saw compromised OpenSSH binaries with trojan code in sshd, ssh, ssh-keygen and ssh-askpass deployed. The company offers a page http://go.cpanel.net/checkyourserver which includes instructions how to check for the trojan SSHs.
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