[xyst]

More like a wannabe stuxnet.

Whoever was trying to get this into the wild was really sloppy in execution of an otherwise “beautiful” attack.

Stuxnet effectively put a stopgap in Iranian’s nuclear program. This backdoor could barely make it out of the alpha phase of development.

[infogulch]

They may have been rushed. Elsewhere itt:

> A patch was ready to be introduced into Linux to prevent this type of attack (dynamically loading unneeded libraries).