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New ‘Plague’ PAM Backdoor Exposes Critical Linux Systems to Silent Credential Theft



August 02, 2025 at 07:03PM

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux backdoor dubbed Plague that has managed to evade detection for a year. "The implant is built as a malicious PAM (Pluggable Authentication Module), enabling attackers to silently bypass system authentication and gain persistent SSH access," Nextron Systems researcher Pierre-Henri Pezier said. Pluggable Authentication Modules

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