Hackers have released a sample code for a virus that could infect both Linux and Windows PCs.
The virus, which was given the double name Virus.Linux.Bi.a/ Virus.Win32.Bi.a, was reported last week by security firm Kaspersky Lab. Security researchers worry that the malicious code may be part of a disturbing new trend in viruses that can run on Windows as well as other operating systems that have been largely ignored by hackers.
“The virus is written in assembler and is relatively simple,” a Kaspersky representative says. “However, it is interesting in that it is capable of infecting the different file formats used by Linux and Windows — ELF and PE format files respectively.”
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