Originally posted here by slarty
I find it curious that the latest "Linux worms" attacks neither Linux nor any piece of Linux system software, but rather pieces of application software (Various PHP applications) which in fact might be equally vulnerable on Windows or anything else.

So the worms that we see attacking xmlrpc.php etc - the so-called "Linux" worms, are actually not Linux specific at all.

Mark
Not exactly..

They might just as well break into the Windows servers.. But the code they drop is linux specific..

And at that only x86 linux (or X86_64 with x86 compatibility)..